Your Thoughts on the Future of Live?

Interesting question.  Here’s what I can think up offhand.

- Access to current Live features through all manner of Online Devices (Zune/Windows Mobile Phones) through Wifi, cellular techs etc.

- Drilldown in the Friends list to see what Friends of Friends are playing.  Allowing us to possibly broaden our own circle of friends in the meantime.   Also make a change to our personal profile prohibiting friends of friends from seeing us and/or our activities.

- Ability to shadow or peek at a game that a friend may be playing without actually owning a copy of the game itself. (Kind of like a remote desktop but only to watch)  Could be used as a great promotional tool for 3rd parties without having to actually put a demo out there.

- Ability to selectively mute people in ranked games so that you don’t need to hear/deal with their BS.  Muting would also make them unable to hear you.

- Make more options for gamertag game listing so what instead of showing/listing the most recent game played, you can list your gamertag with the 5 most played game or your games with the highest achievement scores.

- Integration of your Live Profile into MSN so that you can see your Live Friends when you log into MSN with your Live Credentials.

Microsoft has talked about adding Live to devices such as cell phones; I think it would be a logical step to use this advantage.  Let’s say you’re using Live on your cell phone and you see a friend online; you want to talk to them.  Why not use Skype-like functionality to allow the cell phone user to "call" them (through a Live server setup) and voice chat with the XBL/Windows Live user?  That way gamers really can be in communication anywhere, and more easily organize themselves.

I’d want a unified webpage for myself.  Whenever I add a service or product, new gadgets are added to the website.

For example, when I register a 360 on my account, I can access gadgets that deal with my achievement.  When I register a zune, a library gadget or recently played music gadget appears.  The site would always have my presense, etc.

Perhaps my Live-enabled phone has GPS in it, so my presense doesn’t just say what I’m doing, but where I am.  A designated area becomes work or home; outside my designated areas it becomes Nashville, TN, etc.  The next version of the Xbox (720?) NEEDS to have a GPS in it.  That’s the next step in community development.

Unifed purchases will be extremely important for me.  Give me the option to buy Geo Wars for $5 on the 360 or $5 on the PC or $5 on the mobile… or, I can spend $10 and get it for all three.

Keep my game saves on a central server, so my gamertag can pick up a play my game on any device, anywhere.

And then, bring all this together and let me see the trends.  If the system notices that every monday night, 50 gamertags communte to one location, access their saved games and start playing Gears of War together… let me know so I can find out what the party is all about.

Finally, let certain aspects of the live ID be exclusive.  If I’m in the XNA Creator’s Club, let my gamertag say that.  If I’m a Zune Ambassador, let the world know somehow.  If I’m a certified Microsoft database engineer, put that on there somehow.

I love that you guys are open to suggestions; keep up the great work!

I want live to become my personal media server. When I drop my MP3′s onto my "My Music" folder, I want Live to register them.

From there, I want to be able to log into Live from anywhere. My Car radio, My cellphone, My Xbox 4000, My shower… and immediately have access to my entire collection of music, or any other media that is appropriate for the device/location I’m accessing Live from.

I want Live to keep track of how I listen to my music, and let me know over time what tracks I tend to skip and which tracks I listen to. Perhaps I could give a tivo-like "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs Down" to a track I’m listening to from any Live-enabled device.

That is the kind of thing that would keep my loyal to the Live brand.

Rask, you can already mute individual players through the dashboard. I do this all the time. Just bring up their gamer card screen and hit mute near the bottom. I don’t know if they can still hear you or not, though, once you do that.

I want to be able to continue an arcade game on my mobile device, that is, If am at the E2C3 on Doom, I want to be able to resume the game at my mobile device.

My response is more in tuned as being feedback, but can we get a translucent blade as a option instead of a 480i guide blade. Playing multi- player games and watching movies make it a hard to choose if I should accept a request of any kind because I can’t see what going on behind the blade.

Better integration between my friends list on live messenger and my friends list on Xbox Live.

I want to be able to video-chat with my friend on messenger live from my Xbox.

I didn’t know that.  Thanks Measure.

How about XBox Live Radio so that if you don’t like the music that’s in a game, you can tune in to Live Radio online and listen to music streamed from this instead over the sound effects of the game or your PC.

Xbox Live Radio could also be used with a Wifi-Enabled Zune/MP3 player or Windows Mobile Phones through the Cell Networks, all available with your XBox Live sub unified under your Login.

I agree with the music comment by Measure. That would be incredibly huge, and nearly impossible to implement I’m sure!. The total communication would be a god send as well. Being able to speak with anyone when they are signed into any of the live devices through almost any means (headset, cell phone, car phone, webcam). Of course as MMOs get bigger and bigger the ability to influence different aspects of your virtual character or world through different devices is always mouth watering.

As a side note regarding music control function, specifically the playlist, of the 360, with over 10K MP3s, there needs to be some sort of multi-layer filtering available! Eg: filter by genre, than by artist, than by album… (like iTunes)

Although I am not (yet) a Live player, I guess that it could be good for the system to finally remove the 50mb Arcade cap rather than making exceptions such as with Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I think it could unleash new possibilities for electronic distribution and allow higher technologically advanced titles be possible for the system.

PD: Also, fancy making sure the xbox gamecards are able to be visible again for gecko-core browser users? I’ve noticed the "official" gamecards can only be seen properly now under IE and while I do not find it a bad product at all I, and many other people, have other preferences

Re: "Better integration between my friends list on live messenger and my friends list on Xbox Live.

I want to be able to video-chat with my friend on messenger live from my Xbox."

Is that all "better integration" means to you? Video chat? Or are there other things you want to see?

Re: "- Ability to shadow or peek at a game that a friend may be playing without actually owning a copy of the game itself. (Kind of like a remote desktop but only to watch)  Could be used as a great promotional tool for 3rd parties without having to actually put a demo out there."

Interesting idea. Wickedly hard to do well, though, assuming both people don’t have the game. Talking about some sort of real-time video capture, encode, and streaming. And some of that work would have to happen on the local client box, potentially affecting the game you were playing… just so someone could watch you play.

" Give me the option to buy Geo Wars for $5 on the 360 or $5 on the PC or $5 on the mobile… or, I can spend $10 and get it for all three."

I think it makes sense that developers move toward a more unified release system.

If I buy a game, and I have multiple consoles I’d like to be able to play it on each of them. Without a fee, or having to rebuy it.

If I buy Phantasy Star World for the PS2, and 2 months later I buy an Xbox 360, I’d like to also be able to play it on that. That would be a huge reason for me to upgrade to another console. Being able to play all cross console games I have.

Re: "Although I am not (yet) a Live player, I guess that it could be good for the system to finally remove the 50mb Arcade cap rather than making exceptions such as with Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I think it could unleash new possibilities for electronic distribution and allow higher technologically advanced titles be possible for the system."

I doubt this will be an issue long-term. The 50 MB cap is to help protect the experience for all users – ever tried the downloads on the PS3? It’s painful, and will remain so until bandwidth speeds go up significantly for a large percentage of users. As long as there’s an exception policy in place for those games where it makes sense to allow >50 MB downloads, I think it’s a fair balance IMO.

Re: "I want live to become my personal media server. When I drop my MP3′s onto my "My Music" folder, I want Live to register them.

From there, I want to be able to log into Live from anywhere. My Car radio, My cellphone, My Xbox 4000, My shower… and immediately have access to my entire collection of music, or any other media that is appropriate for the device/location I’m accessing Live from."

Great idea! Definitely some interesting legal implications to work through with licensing and such, but very cool.

If you’re interested in this now, you can get a similar capability from a web script called Andromeda, from Turnstyle Software. I’ve used this in the past (and am setting up again at home) to stream my personal music library across the net. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.

http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/

Re – Interesting idea. Wickedly hard to do well, though, assuming both people don’t have the game. Talking about some sort of real-time video capture, encode, and streaming. And some of that work would have to happen on the local client box, potentially affecting the game you were playing… just so someone could watch you play.

Plus there’s the bandwidth issue to think about.   To do this well, you would need to have a copy of the game assets on a server somewhere, have that server take care of re-creating those assets in an image and then passing it down to the person requesting the data.   The nice thing about this is that the image wouldn’t need to really be realtime to make it a worthwhile idea.  The client passes action information to the server, server rebuilds the sequence and passes it to the requestor of the data.

Amount of processing power to do this properly might not be worth the expense though.

Then again, you did give us a huge timeframe to think about =P.

How about taking a page from the DS handbook and letting devs make games with a client attached to the game itself.   Once someone starts a game with the disk they own, the host could invite people to his game and then the game would send a client to the other players that don’t have the game and they could play Multiplayer without both of them having the game.

Distribution could be done on the spot or through XBox Live marketplace as a download.

I would like to see the experience become seamless reguardless of what device i’m using Xbox, Zune, Phone, PC. Friends should be available on all, my Zune music library should be available to all, saved games should be stored on the network and be available from any device, marketplace videos and other content should be available to all. And then add the ability to seamlessly switch my current activity to any device. If I start a conversation on my Xbox I should be able to connect to that from my phone and continue right where i was. If I have songs queued on my Zune I should be able to pull that to my xbox or media center and continue playing right where I was. If I start a game on the xbox I should be able to continue from the last save on the pc or phone. My devices could present a list of current live activities that this device supports, which I could then connect to. For example, on the list i may have a playlist, a chat, and the saved state of a game. Then I would select one and resume it on that device from where I left off.

@ Rask,

You mean something like TVersity (http://www.tversity.com/) or XB stream (http://www.xbstream.com/xbs/)?..

A larger Friend List and a method of organizing them.  

I have work friends, RL friends, relatives, online friends and want them available to me at all times, on any device.

Increased video chat ability.  More people allowed.   Wider range, messaging capability too. IE Send photo from video phone to 360 Live account.  

Calendar

Since the Live ID will be available on multiple devices how will you be able to tell which is active.  Also how about security.  If you lose your phone/pda or your 360 get’s stolen how will you be able to track or shut down that ID?

Be able to back up your dl’d videos, ID and game files to your PC so you can upgrade to a larger HD.

How about a AirPod type of device so you can transmit video to another TV/LCD?

A wireless keyboard

Use the MP3 ID# info better.  Allow the 360 to explore play music through the band name, album, year, genre. Dynamic play lists.

Dynamic reporting, don’t just report someone as being bad to game with but how about a kudos reporting for those rare nice people you find online.

@WarriorSan – those get information to your 360 from outside sources (the net and your PC).  What I’m talking about is you being able to see what your friend, who is playing a game that you may or may not own, on your tv through Xbox Live.

I would like to see the markerplace unified (buying content for whatever on your 360, pc or mobile device), better live integration with Vista, the abilety to change your country (provided you actualy live there ) and bringing applications to the marketplace the way games are(I am looking at the pc here), I would buy expensive software with a system in place like there is on the xbox 360.

And last but not least, bringing MORE content to the marketplace and updating more frequently (GAMES, tv show, music and music video’s) games that should be easily available without to much licensing issues are games under the heading "abandonware".

While I really think Live is solid as-is, the one major thing I could see that would make me very happy would be the inclusion of more Dedicated Servers for certain games.   I know servers have, in the past, been hosted on Live, but it would really be great to see more of them.

Other than that, I really would like to see support for more sim-games on Live, and games more in the vein of Steel Battalion: Line of Contact and  ChromeHounds.   Live makes persistent campaign based games like that possible, and honestly that is a huge draw for me and a lot of people that I know.  

Put a Web browser in the dashboard please.

I know I’m not thinking big here but….

I would really like ShoutCast style streaming music stations.

Age filters would be good also.  Playing with a bunch of little kids gets annoying.  I want to play other adults!  Why we don’t have this now is beyond me.

Unles MS is worried about sexual preditors targeting kids…but they can do that NOW!  So let me filter out the little kids.

I would also like to be able to tune cars, paint cars, Create Charators and so on for 360 games on my PC.  Games should ship with a PC editor built in.

Pop the disk in my PC, paint my car, save it…and then pull the information from my PC and save it to my 360.

Some things are better to do with a keyboard and mouse.  ;)

More of an Xbox Live suggestion:

Party system built at the dashboard.

You remember how the friends list used to be up to the developers, and that is now integrated into the dashboard? That is a great improvement. So…

I wish they would do the same with the "party" feature as seen in Halo 2 (and also in Burnout Revenge for Xbox, but not the 360?!??). Developers would have to accept parties/matchmaking into their game.

For example, I’ve got 3 friends playing Gears of War. I "build" a party of 4 at the dash level. The party leader can then use the games matchmaking to bring the entire party into a games.

Adding a tab for clan support would be nice too (a clan name would work just like your gamertag, only one unique name) and would add a prefix or suffix by your tag in games that would support this feature.

In the future, I see Live absorbing MSN and Hotmail.  Live will streamline communications and social networking across all Microsoft platforms.  I even see Live incorperating a VOIP service down the line (maybe MS buys Skype).  

Free online play would be nice.

-  I’d like to see being able to make the achievement pic turn into a possible gamer pic.  That way you could use your gamer pic to show off your proudest achievement.

-  I also would like to see points have a scale of difficulty.  Viva Pinata and Dead Rising have good achievements but each achievement is worth the same amount of points.  More difficult achievements should be worth more points than the one you get for just playing the first 5 minutes and stumbling over an achievement.

Ok,

Stop charging for gamercard avs and themes!

And have someway to make your own Theme.. im talkin FULL theme… not just the background picture.

I’d love to skin each blade…not to mention make my OWN av..I have not and WILL NOT pay for these…waste of money

I would like to have the ability to select one of my earned achievements and have it listed on my Profile and Gamercard as my favorite (akin to City of Heroes badge system letting you select one as a title under the character’s name).

More deep games for download, even if they need an exemption for size.

Nothing wrong with antique Atari titles per se, but gaming got worlds better in the “16 bit” era IMHO. Sonic the Hedgehog is a natural, but don’t stop there. Ecco the Dolphin, Phantasy Star II and III, and other titles from the Genesis library should return. I want access to all my favorites from the catridge era (and beyond, actually — what about Sega CD and Dreamcast?) Arcade-only titles would be great also. Presumably, Nintendo won’t help you, but work closely with Sega and 3rd parties as much as you can. Push to bring back those games. Improve them if possible like the arcade games are often “updated,” if the publisher wishes.

In short, Xbox Live Arcade is doing well with antique retro, but what about more recent retro? There’s a rich history/backcatalogue there, and like many people I’m really tired of disc-based retro collection ripoffs with filler. Xbox Live (maintaining high standards for adaptation, with fair pricing per game) is the way to do it right.

Guy said "Free online play would be nice."

NO it would not be!  Look at Sony’s system…you get what you pay for.

$50 a year…that’s only $4.17 a month!  And for all that Xbox Live offers it’s Well worth it.  

Although, I WOULD like the option to pay monthly. It doen’t hurt the pocket book as much.

inajeep:

Good point about security. Perhaps there could be something like Top Rope Suplex’s idea for a web page we could register our devices. Then if it was stolen we could block the device, with the option to wipe it, from the web page.

I think the main thing that I would love to see, and this was hinted a couple times before the 360 even came out, is some sort of cross-platform P2P service for user-created content with minimal restrictions. Think eBay or Morpheus/LimeWire only for game content. These could be public downloads or private ones, free or a fee [which like eBay MS could take a small % of]. Bring the entire PC mod community to Live. EA doesn’t want to update my Madden roster with who’s hurt or who’s cut? Fine, I’ll do it and post it myself. I could create a dashboard with pictures of all my friends and family and send it to them, etc.

Put an XBOX Live "node" closer to Central Wisconsin so that I can play without continuous lag. I get no lag in my PS3 or PC, just in Live.

I want to be able to buy full games over live.  I’d need a bigger hd, but I have absolutely no problem with waiting 24 hours for a game to download.  It would be nice to be able to encrypt it on my local machine so I could reload it if needed, but I’m flexible on that.  I just want the convience of not needing to go to a store to get a game.

One of my biggest concerns is the tracking of downloaded content from XBLM. I know that I am only one of many that has had their launch system replaced. Because of connection issues with my ISP, I am no always connected to the internet. What this means it that I am not always able to play my Arcade titles because this is a different system – XBL content is tied not only to the Live account but to the HDD as well as the system. The process in which to get this content loaded to my replacement has been very tedious and stressful. I’ve also been a Xbox Live member since Xbox v.1 beta, so I’ve also lost content there as well.

I’ve said all that to say. There has to be some way to store XBLM content on a server (cloud perhaps) so that in the event one exchanges their system they can also replace all of their content hassle free – with various security measures of course (Credit Card info, Live ID, registration of new system). This server should also carry over the information to the next Xbox system, so that customers won’t have to pay twice for a game that they’ve already paid for (e.g. Ms. Pacman for Xbox v.1 now available for Xbox 360).

how about adding back in the ability to have XBL send email/IM messages when sending notifications online?  So, if I send a game invite on XBL, I get a notification on my passport account (i.e., Windows Live messenger if I’m online, or email if I’m not) as was supported on the original Xbox, but died when the 360 came out.  Maybe this is part of the Live Anywhere, but it is sorely missed…  :-)

@ Rask,

With these progs you can already stream (listen) e.g. internet radio on your xbox 360..(as alternative to your comment about Xbox Live Radio)

I really like Sean’s Idea:

"Microsoft has talked about adding Live to devices such as cell phones; I think it would be a logical step to use this advantage.  Let’s say you’re using Live on your cell phone and you see a friend online; you want to talk to them.  Why not use Skype-like functionality to allow the cell phone user to "call" them (through a Live server setup) and voice chat with the XBL/Windows Live user?  That way gamers really can be in communication anywhere, and more easily organize themselves."

Live is great, but don’t forget single console owners. Many games that are co-op over live(e.g. crackdown) aren’t co-op across one console. Guest support was a big feature on the xbox 1 but it seems that less and less games are supporting it.

Both the PS3 and the Wii have web browsers.  As more and more people go HDTV and browsing is more practical on your TV, having a built in browser would be great.

I realized that Microsoft would prefer that everyone build a media center PC that they plug directly into their TVs in addition to their Xbox, but that’s just not practical for 95%+ of the populace.  I actually haven’t bought an Xbox 360 yet because I’m debating on whether to build a cheap HTPC or buy a 360 because I can’t afford both but want the browser functionality on my TV (as well as some other things that HTPCs allow for).

Always, always support co-op and head-to-head multiplayer modes on 1 console, split screen, not just on Live. Nothing against online play, but lots of us prefer to be in the same room with someone we know, if we can. There seem to be fewer and fewer options for that on Xbox (versus Nintendo).

I imagine this is already being considered but:

Build ‘party building’ into Live, a la Halo2.  

Once we have seen this we have grown to hope/expect all other games (where it is applicable) to have this feature.  Implementing this as part of the core system will enable developers to implement quickly and standardize the feature across games.

The addition of ‘Game Reviews’ in marketplace.  As new games are released if a review section was available (video reviews only?) with ratings (meta ratings, combed from reliable sites) could help with both the notification of newly released titles, and what the gameplay looks like etc.  Having this be ‘third party’ created could add value and reliability in the ratings.  Partnering with existing game sites would allow this to be low cost, as well as driving traffic to the review sites.

An out of the blue idea, being able to ‘Compete’ with people on your friends list that have the same game.  When viewing your friends, the games that you have in common could have a ‘compete’ button.  When selected it would track the achievements that your friend is getting in a particular game compared to what you have.  This could be integrated with messaging, sending a notification that your friend has unlocked an achievement that you haven’t. This could be supplemented with adding a voice tag so one friend could ‘taunt/help/ridicule’ a friend that does not yet have that achievement. Of course the ‘compete request’ would have to be accepted to drive these messages.

Microsoft needs to allow more than two people for the private voice chat feature. This may not seem like a lot, but having the ability to invite your friends into a private voice channel across all games is essential.

A must add.

Stream files too and froma pc desktop, thereby eleminating the need for bigger harddrives….

More board and card games on xboxlive…party based games are alot of fun and would really push the experience.

I agree with some of the fellows above! I want to be able to have some friends over and play split screen for poop sakes! Fewer and fewer games are doing this. I am sure this is a developers decision in order to maximize graphic abilities but let’s not forget what made the console so unique in the first place, local multiplayer!

Great comments to read through and thanks for the forum to post Ozy!

Here’s my list of “would like to have”.

- Ability to save downloaded content to a USB external drive connected to the 360.

- Allow streaming of many other types of video files other than wmv.

- Ability for game saves to be stored on Microsoft servers so that if the 360 hard drive crashes no data is lost. Can be a feature for Gold members only if you want.

- Reorganize the marketplace (again). Still have to visit 4 different sections (and drilling down a few levels) just to see what is new in the past few days.

- Make game saves tied to gamertag so that nobody can use someone else’s and get all the achievements without doing anything.

- Support audio chat for up to 4 people at the same time.

- Make it an option to enter a passcode to buy items in marketplace so that when my daughter is using my controller under my account she does not end up buying a 1200 points arcade game by mistake.

- Solve the issue with purchased content when console has to be replaced and the content is no longer tied to the new console.

- Provide ability to put any small image as your private gamer picture, not just pictures taken using the camera.

- Remove 50MB limit on arcade games. You are only causing developers to cut things out (and thus make it available as a separate download) or cut on image quality. How about a 200MB limit? Maybe come up with a new “category” of arcade games? Would open up the door to more recent classics that would sell much more than Frogger. Ex: X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter.

- Make sure arcade titles don’t show up in your game list history on xbox.com unless you’ve actually played the full version. Why in hell are games I’ve simply tried for 2 minutes listed in my games list? I’ve played 100x more with demos and they are not listed (thank God).

- Support for clans.

- Better multiplayer matchmaking so that you can still play ranked matches with friends.

3D Marketplace – it be nice to view all the items in the market place and view as such (like in Chrome Hounds, we should be able to see all the new weapons in 3D, and there stats)

Marketplace – come on we should be able to view everything from here, including themes and pictures.

Dreamcast, Sega and other game systems need to be emulated this would be big for anyone.

Clan Support – what else needs to be said?

Office News letter that can be accessed via the Xbox 360.

GIVE CANADA MORE SUPPORT ENOUGH OF MAKING CANADA GAMERS CRAP!

The option of video chat in every game.  A small, low quality feed of video would pop up during communication.  This would especially be very immersive for futuristic titles like Chromehounds or GRAW, when I can always get feeds from NPC’s but not my teammates.

I should be able to record short replays or videos of any and everything I play in Xbox Live.  The dashboard should make that video capture possible.  It would be ideal to be able to send quick, video-streaming e-cards to non-Xbox owners, hopefully convincing them to buy.

I should never have to click a message to read it.  Any text message should be read to me in-game if I want automatically or displayed as a ticker at the bottom of the screen.

XBL Canada should share the same content as the american one. We’re part of the same region (1) why should I get less content than my neighbors to the south!

Also a multi-user voicechat would be nice as well.

And a stronger PC integration would be good too.

I’d really like to be able to delete from my "games" list Arcade titles which I demo and then decide not to purchase.

I’m tired of seeing games I played for all of five minutes, and which I didn’t enjoy…hence deleting…appearing in my games list, when I don’t own them.

Please let people delete "zero achievement" titles from their "games" list.  I don’t own the games; I’m tired of seeing them there.

Thanks!

Share pictures with other members…

Share your own build themes…

Vista Live always on…

Messenger integration…

Live storage, do save games online instead of local…

"Put a Web browser in the dashboard please."

What he said.

I know it would go against the Arcade probably in ya’lls eyes but allow for Java game play and maybe simple button mapping.

Speaking of.. manditory button mapping options for arcade game. Mortal Kombat 3 can kiss my ass it is useless with an arcade stick.

I’m not sure any of that is considered in the Live realm or not.

Simple blogging or myspace clone crap for Gold subscribers mixed with an Xbox camera might entice a lot of people to spend that part of their time also on Live.

-multiple people voice chat, say up to 4 or so, like the original xbox live on the first xbox.

-active downloads better implemented, a setting on the front dash or maybe a bar up top near the battery meter to show download progress.

-an ability to sort friends list into categories

Well – the biggest change would obviously be remote storage – whereby all of our content is streamed from Microsoft servers – and our save games achievements ect are stored on Microsoft servers (eliminating the need for a HDD), but, this may not come into fruition.

What I really want is a Messenger system not unlike windows live messenger – also to be able to delete "played games" so i havent got countless undesirable OXM icons on my gamercard

obviously full xbox / xbox 360 backwards compatibility would be a plus.

Video chat as a much bigger feature – the victory dance feature from command and conquer 3 is seriously overlooked – and I believe that if a camera were to be bundled with every xbox 720 (or whatever it would be called) – video chat could be intergrated into most games to great avail. (with the option of blocking the feed of those "showcasing" themselves)

Have it so that in-game messages count as emails – so i can message those on computers who are not necessarily using windows live.

Also the whole user-created content that was talked about pre-360 launch needs to be fully intergrated into the xbox live marketplace – so i can literally photoshop an image, tranfer it to my 360 then upload it to the xbox live marketplace and offer it as a theme (or gamerpic).

Host fully fledged live tournaments which can be viewed by anyone in a sort of advanced "gotham tv"

Saved videos in Halo 3 are going to be massive – intergrate this into xbox live!

Also – finally… intergrate clan support into xbox live – so that we dont need to create countless clans in numerous games

I have two main requests, full MS/ Windows Live Messenger Support (I’m on the console with my gamertag linked to my .NET passport, and my Friend is on His PC and MSN and we can voice chat and text chat.)

And a Web Browser.

I would love to see the ability to shadow other players and perhaps in a little window in the corner of the screen watch them play. Of course it should be optional for the player but it would be cool. I also think live should have some kind of TV intergration so that you could watch TV right on your 360 from some kind of TV service that you offer. Maybe a DVR for the big HD to compliment the TV feature. And a web browser.

Video-Chat is just one example.

I would like to see my Xbox Friends gamers tag clearly in my messenger Window.

I would love to instantly see what there are playing(maybe "Windows Vista" is a new kind of game).

If there are playing in a mobile device or a Windows Game I would also like to see that on my messenger.

I would expect to have instant messaging.

If my friend is in front of the computer and I send IM from my xbox, he/she should be able to received.

BTW: I don’t mind if my messenger will sign me out if I sing in into Live from the XBox,Mobile device or Windows Game.

Clan blade on dashboard.

Be able to sort your game list into games owned and games played.

Bingley Joe: "I’d really like to be able to use ANY of the Achievements I’ve unlocked as a gamer-pic."

that would be really cool!

plus Clan support, more storage (HD, PC or online storage), marketplace new content notification (emails or live messages), ability to capture pics and video from a game you’re playing.

and what’s up with the 24 hrs limit on movie watching?! make it 15 days at least, 24hrs is not satisfying.

Thanks for a great post.

Re: I’d really like to be able to delete from my "games" list Arcade titles which I demo and then decide not to purchase.

I must have searched for half an hour trying to figure out a way to delete these annoying references to games I’ve only demoed and already deleted.  I don’t want my list of played games cluttered with games I played for 1 minute.

Also.. please allow save games to be transferred from different profiles.  When I created my Live account I had to restart all my games because the name I originally choose was already taken online.

One last thing.  Why do downloads run in the background when I buy from the marketplace, but when I access them via the main menu of a game (ie: Gears of War map pack or video), I have to wait for each download to finish to do anything else?

*Release more than one XBLA game a week. We should’ve had Worms by now!

*Don’t force achievements to ranked matches as that is where all the asshats hang out.

*Let us use the achievement pictures as gamerpics. A lot of those icons are nice.

*Stop charging for stupid stuff like themes, icons, GamerTag changes.

*MS should just hire the guys behind Xbox Media Center and use that for the 360. I guarantee you that the 360 would be the #1 media center. http://xboxmediacenter.com/

*Allow more than 100 friends. I already have to juggle friends due to this.

*I’m already paying a subscription fee, why am I forced to wait for demo exclusivity to end in my region?

*Any game purchased on XBLA should be available to me on other systems that I own (Zune, Vista, etc). I already payed for Uno once, and I will not pay for it again.

*What happened to only playing with people of my zone? If I am recreation, I want to play with only those in recreation and not those in Pro. I thought live was suppose to be like this from the beginning.

*If I leave negative feedback to avoid a player, I expect it to work and never see him again. As it stands now this does not seem to be the case in Gears of War for me.

I hate how everything is tied to my Hotmail (MS Live) email address.  That address is spammed to hell so I never check it.  I’d like to tie everything to an e-mail address that isn’t necessarily one operated by Microsoft.  Or at least migrate it to something else.  

I’d like to be able to have more than 100 friends.  Also, it would be good if I could group friends together  (for clans, friends, etc) and then be able to message a whole group at once.

I would like to be able listen to my voice messages from an box on the computer (xbox.com)

A pseudo-P2P system for marketplace downloads (demos, trailers, etc)to speed up the DL time.  DRM is tied to the console anyway.  I’m sure there’s a way to implement this.. optional for the user of course.

If you use passport.com you can create a live id with your normal email address. Just go down to where it says ‘Use an e-mail address you already have’.

I’d like it if Achievements would not be obtainable in ranked matches only.

also make sure the achievements in the  games are actually POSSIBLE TO GET (Robotron,Gauntlet, and a few other games have bugged acheivements)

A few things:

The option to remove someone from your buddy list without them knowing about it. I have some people on mine that I only have to shut them up. Course if I take them off, they’ll slag me for it.

Ranked and player matches should not be seperate sections. MS should require that the available games lists shows ALL games, and then allows them to be sorted by game type or whether they are ranked or not.

Party support built into the dashboard.

Clan support built into the dash. For all games. Allow people to even make clans that span ALL games.

Give Gold members more bang for their buck. Like how about gold members are given discount on DLC? That would be awesome.

Start selling guest passes for live on the market place. Imagine I’m not a big muliplayer guy, but I would like tp play a game online with my buds today. Allow me to buy a day or a weekends worth of live access instead of having to buy the card.

Keep the 50meg limit for arcade, but reduce prices. 5 bucks for what amounts to an atari game is nuts when i can get get an NES or TG16 game on the wii for about as much.

Build another section calledd Live gamestore or something where we can buy bigger, more complex games.Similar to what sony is doing with their store allowing you to buy old PSX games. Your arcade already pwns theirs, but we should also have an option for full fledged games.

Put an end to companies like EA abusing Microtransactions. You know what I am talking about. It makes you look bad and pisses us off. No one wins. I have no problem bying addons or new maps or even horse armour, but i should never be charged for things that should be in the game to begin with.

Offer game rentals. Similar to your movie rentals. Allow me to rent a game over live.

Improve voice quality. It is already good, but is better on the ps3. Fix this.

I think that live anywhere for windows mobile phones should have the option to answer private chat invites from live users on your friends list.

my though?  drop the price of the subscription to gold live.  i don’t have a 360 myself, as i’m still waiting for the first price drop, but even after that, i won’t bother with any yearly live fee at its current price.

better yet, make it free all together and nudge the price of all ‘extra’ content online by a TINY amount across the board.

that way you should have as close to a 100% attach rate (with a bigger potential base to sell to) as possible.  About the only ones that won’t use live then are those that don’t have broadband, or those whose parents don’t want their kids online, or those that are too stupid to use live anyway.

its all about the volume, think walmart.

I really think a key component to the Live experience when it spreads out to mobile and Vista is the ability to continue a game on multiple platforms using one game save.  I think th ekey to this has already been announced:

Windows Home Server

What if I could back up the media – videos, music, themes, and game saves – on my 360 to the WHS (is this why you haven’t come out with a bigger Xbox HDD?).  I could then pair my phone or my computer with the WHS.  Since Vista has an integrated game manager, it would check for any games saves that have been updated on the WHS and just use them.

Then, when I go over a friend’s house, since my GamerTag is associated with the WHS, if I plug in my memory card it automatically logs int to my WHS and offers it as a storage device in the 360.  Game saves should be small enough to carry over quick enough…

So, my memory card works great for carrying around my 360-exclusive gametag.  What happens when I want to carry it around to different devices?  Will I be able to log in to any Vista machine with my Gamertag, or will I need a dongle?  Can I log in to my friend’s phone with my Gamertag?  What if my wife and I share a Zune; can we both be set-up on that Zune?

Perhaps a dongle could be used on all of those devices… the size of a key maybe what can plug into all of them, embedded with a GPS device?  The key then becomes important, because the key IS our gamertag.  The gamertag has been lifted from the 360 and becomes a part of our everyday life in any activity.

I keep coming back to the GPS device because it truly is important for transitional gaming.  Nintendogs barks when you ger around another DS with Nintendogs in it; what if you got a ding whenver someone else had a Zune around?  If you’ve got the GPS key with you, you don’t even need to have a specific device to find someone who has the same interests…

Surprised no-one has mentioned this: I want to be able to spy on my friends even MORE from my pc, to the point that when they’re on XBL at home, and I’m at work, I can message ‘em and maybe set up a game session if I’m conscious when I get back in from work.

So mainly, making the MSN Messenger capabilities reach deep into the bowels of XBL would be a good thing, oh except for the fact that (and I’ve been an MSN subscriber since version 2.0!)…. MSN tech sucks, terribly.  Someone at MS get the DirectX team on this, they’re the ones that know what they’re doing over there!

A feature I would like to see would be the ability for Live to filter out, via quickmatch, custom match, and/or hosting, players via their age.

I’m not that old, but I’m also not that young (27) and sometimes, I would just like to be able to play with adults. I know that Microsoft knows the age of enrollees via the account they (or their parents create), so I’m sort of hoping to have the option to pick players of either

Any age

under the age of 17 (for example)

players 18 years of age and older.

If this were possible, well, wow! It would be freakin’ awesome.

Make it so you can have more than 1 on 1 voice chat through the dashboard. You can talk to more than one person in-game, why not a group chat on the dashboard?

Web browser that is better than that on the Wii

Bring the whole clan thing right into the dashboard as a whole section. Like a lot of things on the 360, it could be optional for the hardcore gamers who want that stuff. It could include tournament sign ups for all games.

Player rankings and awards. It would be nice if there were awards added to your profile for participating in clan torunaments and a actual rank system.

Bring all the HD content to other countries! (like Canada)

Make Gold Live free!

Be able to have more than 100 friends.

CLAN SUPPORT just like friends, i want my clans to be in there.

AD Supported Live, the silver members should get alot more ads

Larger Friends List : )

Someone said it earlier, but a dashboard level party system.  I want to play ranked games with 3 of my friends against another group of 4 friends with equal skill.  Cough H2 Cough.  

I’d love to set a default online status.

Sometimes I wanna play by myself without Chat requests and game invites coming from every which way, but I still want auto sign-in.

- a bigger hard drive on the 360. I don’t understand how so much media content is promoted, yet we hardly have any space to store it all.

- a game lobby on the 360 dashboard itself. this way Live friends can meet up, coordinate, then jump off onto an actual game. the chat channels aren’t clear, and appear cumbersome.

- more than one XBLA release per week!!! the current line up is quite sad. and I don’t want to wait in one week increments to get something worthy.

- BETTER XBLA titles. We need well done classics, or new, original titles. Geo Wars is a good example. But we need like, 20 more of those.

Personally the thing i’d want the most is basically a Live-wide version of Halo 2′s party system. When i’m playing multiplayer on Live, I pretty much always want to A)Play with my friends, and B) Be on the same team as them.

Games don’t need to have Halo’s matchmaking feature, it just needs to work so that say 5 of us can join a party on the Dashboard, with voice chat ability, then the party leader would search like a game as normal, and the other members of the party would join the game automatically(or be prompted to insert the correct game disk) and if possible, placed on the same team.

This feature would, in my opinion, make the Live experience so much better; Currently to play a game of Rainbow Six Vegas, I or someone else has to find a game, then send invites to the 4 or 5 friends I want to play with, by the time i’ve done that and they’ve all joined, we’re all on different teams, the last guy might not get in due to the game filling up(meaning the rest of us have to leave and start over) etc, etc.

I would like to have a list of the marketplace content that I’ve bought in the past (integrated into marketplace). This would help me quickly download my content again if my 360 dies or I upgrade the hard drive.

I’d like an open source community in that I can develop a game or application and share it with my friends.  In turn, we can all enjoy this program together.  The strength of XBL is it’s open community now.  And, by making it more of a playground where everyone can participate together with no restrictions, the potential is limitless.  

1. clan support

2. Online space for game saves so they are accessible from any connected 360. 5-10mb free with Gold, charge extra for more.

3. Sign in with multiple live accounts on the same box

I would like a streaming game channel on live that would allow me to watch the best players.. the top ranked players and also clan matches and tournaments. That would be extremely cool.. regardless if I had the game or not.. A way to broadcast your own games might be pretty cool too.. like if you can’t come to a lan party, at least you can still watch it from your pc, phone, music player.. whatever has an internet connection.

I’d also like to see the gamer tag evolve into more of a "gamer presence.." where you can customize your gaming identity more. Like if someone looks at your gamer tag info, they would see a whole custom page with even streaming audio and the option to play some of your more covetted gaming moments that you could have possibly recorded via the console.. yes standard in-game video recording would be awesome.

Lets call it "file sharing over live"..

Just that idea alone.. free advertising from the players themselves showing the best moments from their favorite gaming moments. Like, hey man, check me out playing Legendary in halo 9. heh heh.. and all you’d have to do is click a link in either their gamer presence area or in the text message they sent you.. they could then save it or whatever.

In game confrencing is also another idea. Imagine playing a game and somebody wants to talk to you.. either voice only or a little cross com type box could pop up.. that’d be cool.

I’d persoonally also like some sort of internet browsing over live. Plenty of times the xbox is more convienient than getting to my computer.

1)Better muting and blocking. Within a couple of button presses, and from within any game, I should be able to permanently mute and block a user, so I don’t have to listen to them in this game, and won’t be matched with them again.

Perhaps this could be extended so that I can avoid people that my friends and friends-of-friends have blocked.

2) Integration of Xbox Live Friends and Windows Messenger. I should be able to video chat with Windows users, see what my friends are playing from my Windows Mobile phone, etc.

3) Get rid of the 50Mb limit, then port some Xbox titles to Live Arcade (Halo/Halo2). May have to wait for a bigger HD

4) Make full games downloadable as an alternative to the disk (bigger HD again). Stores could sell discounted redemption codes, as an insentive to use the store. Changing and scratching those noisy disks and worrying about pre-ordering physical media is a hassle.

5) Would it kill you to add a web browser?

I would like to be able to see the status of all my friends at once. I hate having to go through each friend, one at a time, to see which ones are joinable. Otherwise, I’d love to have some sort of visual cue to see who I can join or send an invite to.

I would also like to have an option to change the alert setting to only show friends that are playing the same game. When I’m playing ‘Gears of War’ it doesn’t really help me to know that one of my friends comes online to play ‘Halo 2′ or some other game.

My other suggestion would be to group friends by categories. Some friends I like playing online in certain games only so I’d like to group them in one category.

Finally, each game should come with gamertag pics on the disc so the only way to get them is to get the disc in your system. Also this means that they should be FREE!

I’m not sure if this is Live related, but let’s get rid of points or else make them the correct ratio. 500 pts = $5. That’s all for now folks. See ya.

Multi-User (FOUR) Private Voice Chat…

The ability to group Friends.. into folders, sections or whatever… think MSN Messenger.

Default Online Status (away, busy etc)

Video Marketplace content in Canada Please.

Get MSN Messenger Alerts system back up and running along with MSN support, so I can chat and message people on Messenger that have their passport account linked to their Xbox Live account.

a Clan/Group section like mentioned above in the dashboard. When you go to that blade, it lists all of the games you are currently in a group or clan for, then by selecting a specific game, you can see who is online from that clan.. this would possibly eliminate the need for a larger friends list. you wouldn’t have to add everybody.

i’d like everything to come to me.. a subscription type method for alerting me to the latest content.. just a simple pop up post it note when there’s new content in a certain category.. like, hey.. there’s a new demo.. rather than me having to check either online for new info or having to navigate to the new releases area within live. Theres a  bit too much navigation the way its setup now, I know theres a more intuitive way to do this.

Hi, I only have two suggestions that I feel would make the Xbox live service significantly better.

First and most important imo is the inclusion of a dedicated server option in ALL XBL Multiplayer titles and importantly the ability for ISP’s to set up consoles that take advantage of this. Having a wide range of locally hosted, lag free servers would be beneficial to players worldwide. As an Australian player nothing annoys me more than to only find American matches (which in most cases are unplayable due to lag) or having to maintain a friends list of people you’re only communicating with in the briefest hope you can use their fast connection for a server for ten minutes of the day. The bonus of dedicated ISP  hosted servers is also that it will take Xbox Live from being a nice touch for console owners and turn it into a service that actually competes with what every PC multiplayer game does for free.

Secondly, More information on whats going on. All these blogs are great, but a "constantly" (daily) updating page on my Xbox 360 dashboard would be even better. You could fill it with info about when new content is coming, what patches are being worked on, new game announcements, developer/staff interviews. As long as it’s constantly and reliably updated it would be a very nice addition to the service.

Otherwise I’m completely happy Thanks for reading.

Two words: web browser

Please have worldwide features, instead of NA only features, like the video service!

I also think a web browser would be a good touch. And please make mouse support.

I’d like to see something like this:

An IM Live! that is compatible with MSN. So 360 users & MSN users could share files (pictures for exemple), have voice chat, text chat, videoconferences.

On the status of the player we could have the desc of what he is actually playing (as the show music option in MSN).

This IM sould of course be free, and available on Win, Mac, Linux and my brand new Blackberry Pearl. On mobile device, the IM client shall be able to do VOIP to communicatate in voice chat with gamers on their 360, and to send pictures if it has a camera.

A clic on the gamertag shall show us, within the IM client the achievments & other stuff like this.

Also, it would be really nice to have chatrooms to chat up to 8/16 players, and videochatrooms to have videoconferences up to 4/8 users.

The ability to be in a private chat with up to 4 friends at the same time.

I would love to see some style of stat ticker that would scroll in xbox live to see what your friends are playing and give  more detailed stats then you can get from just viewing them on your friends list. Like if you were playing GOW for instance the stat ticker could read what game you were playing and maybe how many kills you have and the rounds left.

1) Private chat supporting more than two people

2) Increase the 100 friend limit on the friends list

3) Navigating from game–>guide button–>friends list involves delays as each new menu is pulled-up.  Faster would be better.  The friends list in Halo 2, for example, would appear instantly after hitting "Y"

4) Increasing the number of options for your online status flag to things like "Waiting for Invite" or "Room Full"

I really want my xbox360 to be able to play h.264, divx/xvid and other video formats. I want to be able to burn a data cd or dvd with my favorite episode of dl.tv and watch it on my big screen tv.  

i would like to be able to choose in notifications to turn friend notifications off, but leave achievement nofitications on.

thanks

How about either a bigger freakin hard drive or the ability to use out own freak usb freakin hard drive to store demos and freakin tv shows.

AHHHH!

One thing I have not found here on these list is a feature that allows you to be online but not show up on others list as ONLINE. I hate playing games and having a bunch of messages sent over and over to play. So it would be nice to have that privacy once in a while.

Crowd-Sourcing Hosts.

Pay regular people that have good connections into the internet with Market Place points.

In effect, Creating Hosts that other Live people can connect too for better performance in games.

Have small executables that do not contain textures or models, just the netcode to run a server for whatever particular game.

Hope that’s clear enough.

I’ve been a Live user since 2002 (GT = Aleman).  Some of these have probably already been posted, but here goes:

- Bring back group chatrooms like the original Xbox had.

- MS-hosted dedicated servers for major games.

- Allow Achievement points to be converted to MS Points — there are many complications with this but could be worked out. Maybe, for example, the Achievement points you earn for a specific game could only be used towards purchasing content for that game.

- Speed everything up! Make the Live blades appear instantaneously. Messaging should be faster too–it feels a bit sluggish even on my 10 down/1 up (Mbps) connection.

- Provide standard OS feature to record gameplay (online and off) and then be able to stream to Friends in a chatroom.

- Reduce subscription fees by subsidizing with additional (tasteful) advertising. OR eliminate annual subscription entirely and reduce monthly subscription price appropriately (more convenient for us).

- Provide better tools to ensure all games have Halo 2-like matchmaking capabilities. Also figure out why all new, big games seem to have matchmaking and voice problems at launch.

- Allow TV shows on Video Marketplace to be purchased whole seasons at a time w/ an appropriate discount.

- Allow streaming of local video content to Friends on Live (in a chat room or something).

- Replace current on-screen keyboard with a radial design to improve typing speed when using a controller.

- Automatically leave Private Chat channel when other person exits.

- Somehow be able to switch between Private and Game channel without going through the menu (maybe by holding the "back" button down for a second or something).

- Have a "Friends Leaderboard" on the Dashboard for regular games similar to what is there for XBLA games.

- Show first few words of text messages in the alert indicator (since most text messages I get are very short).

- Make the overlay blades semi-transparent.

- Allow XBLA purchases to be transferred to a different Gamertag (so you can get some value from them if selling the console).

- Add user rating system to Marketplace content.

It would also be amazing to be able to download movies and tv shows to Canada. A web browser would also be nice.

I would like to see auto sign in associated with multiple controllers on one box.  For instance, one live id auto signed in associated for player 1, another for player 2, etc whenever a controller is turned on.

How about an actual lobby room, like DOA4 and PSU tend to have having your own custom avatars walking around and whatnot or just another way of communing with more than 1 person. I mean a private chat is nice but sometimes you want to talk to more than 1 friend when you don’t really have time to play. It’s happened to me and my buddies. It might lag a bit I would guess, but it would be more of an interactive experience if it were between the PC and Xbox users.

Two things:

1) Web browser

2) An Xbox Live e-mail address — so I can get messages from the outside world when absorbed in a game.

How about Xbox Live tournament TV so we can see the best of the best play to win cash & prizes. Like in Gamespot Tournament TV.

I’d like to see how many hours I’ve put into a game (session and total) on the menu that comes up with the guide button.

I’d like to see a web browser.

http://www.xboxyde.com/forum_8_17116_1_en.html

We covered this topic a couple weeks ago over on xboxyde.com  great community site by the way.

I posed this question?  Why do Xbox 360 LIVE lobbies suck?  I mean we have had Halo2 as a template on what can be done on Xbox Live in the form of lobbies and functionality. Here we are over 2 years out from Halo2 on a new improved Nextgen platform and not a single game yet on Xbox LIVE stacks up to Halo2 (I’m talking about LIVE features)

I’m sure people can pitch in on Halo2 Lobby features.

Here are some that have yet to find there way onto Xbox 360 Live titles.

Host can save presets to use in future matches on Xbox Live.

In Depth stats on internet site.

Clan Support.

Player with Optimum speed hosts game.

If Host drops, room doesn’t drop but pauses and goes to next fastest connection.

Party System

Those are just a few.

Now for things promised by MS years ago on the promise of LIVE, and selling it to the fan faithful.

User created content (available on marketplace… gear maps, etc.)

User created maps

Being able to spectate a match.

Ok some of the above are in some LIVE titles on 360…

FEAR… user created maps.

PGR3… Spectator mode

Saints Row… Team/Clan ability

Name me one Xbox 360 title that has come out that offers the LIVE/Lobby functionality of Halo2…

Sorry you can’t this Xbox 360 platform has been out for over a year… Developers have been developing for it for much longer than a year.  Many first party developers have been developing for the 360 and still yet everything pales in comparison to Halo2.

Again I’m only talking about LIVE functionality not gameplay or anything else.

If MS is serious about multiplayer on LIVE and wants to totally leave PS3 in the dust, lets get an SDK out there for developers that give the the tools to make a LIVE lobby experience at least on par with (2 y.o. halo 2 on last gen Xbox)

There should be no excuse.  This is Xbox 360 damnit.  Git’rDone.

There should be a standardized set of features in any Xbox LIVE title for 360, that at least meets or exceeds the genius of Halo2′s Lobby/multiplayer experience.  Don’t leave it up to the developers… give them the know how and toolset, that you already have used, over 2 years ago on halo2.

thats it from me.. on this subject.

OS Perry

- Make the blades appear instantaneously.

- More Microsoft created themes.  I want something simple and slick, like the original interface.  Everything on Live as far as themes is terribly ugly.

- Flyout menus to access information quicker and provide it in a more organized fashion with more relevant information.

- FREE Gold for everyone.  Pro-rate discount current subscriptions.  Add advertisements if necessary but keep them confined to the main blade’s hotbox area.

XBOX Live in particular:

We need group voice chat…i.e. voice chat with more than one person. It can be done in-game, so why is it not possible in the dashboard?

I’d really like to see MS take the social networking features and personlization of Live to the next level.  Xbox.com should take the lead from sites like Facebook and add new ways to share and interact with my friends.  It should also make it easy for me to find and invite people I know offline, as well as meet new people with similair interests online.  Things like game screen caps and videos, user created content, and meaningful profiles are the future of the Live platform.  I should be able to sign in and quickly see which friends have new achievements, are playing a new game, or have updated their profile.  There should be groups I can join to find other like minded gamers, and more tournaments and contests I can enter both on and off the Xbox.

If MS truly wants to build Live into a marketplace they should make sure everyone on Live has the chance to invest in it.  The easier MS makes it for people to put their own content and personality into the 360 ecosystem, the more likely they’ll be to develop a personal investment in the quality of the service and become loyal Live members.

Nintendo and Sony are already working hard to build communities of their own, MS needs to take the lead it’s already got and use it’s existing users to it’s advantage or risk fracturing the market and losing population to other emerging services.

Wow. This is awesome. In any case, what would I want added to Xbox Live?…

1) Video sharing – Bungie and other developers are probably going to add some sort of action replay features in their coming games. It would be cool if Microsof could add a feature that would allow you to send your replays to your fiends…

2) Video messages – Speaking of sending videos, there doesn’t seem to be an option (currently) that allows the Vision Camera to send messages. You have text, voice and image, but nothing for video. That would be a neat addition.

3) Theme Creation – It would be neat if gamers could create their own themes. I realize that this would take away from the money that is made from themes on the Marketplace. But Microsoft always talks about giving consumers "freedom" and "choice". That is an excellent philosophy, which you guys could push even further. I should be able to take pictures from (ie digital camera, iPod, Vision Camer, PC, ect.) and use those images to create backgrounds for each individual blade. Awesome huh?

4) Increased message time – Would it be possible (despite bandwith limitations) to increase the length of text and voice messages? Could you make text messages 500 characters and not 250, and make voice messages 30 seconds instead 15?

If I think of more, I will be sure to add them…Thank a bunch!!!

Just to echo some of the other comments in this blog… I also agree that MS needs to build more of a common foundation for matchmaking and team play into their games.  TrueSkill and Quickmatch are great, but ALL games should have lobby support provided by Live as well as the ability to form parties and enter matchmaking.  Party matchmaking doesn’t have to be ranked, or can be ranked seperately but all games with multiplayer components should let me form up with a group of friends and play together.  If Live is about playing with your friends anywhere anytime, then MS should step back and look for creative ways to make that come true.

find some way of having a group chat channel to talk to more than 1 friend at once

I agree with the robust matchmaking system comments .  Gears of War is a perfect example: I’ve notised that the number of players on Gears has gone down ever since they crippled the ranked capability .

Chat Rooms…

for every game. Where someone can make their own room asking a specific question (kinda like a forum). Then people can enter the room and have an active voice conversation. All of this being done on the guide so you can still play single player and such. Since the Xbox message boards have such an important role in the community this would make a nice approach of making the 360 the center of the entertainment realm.

Just think playing Oblivion while discussing the endless secrets that await you. Or for that manor just discussing the secret achievements any game.    

XBL has already exceeded my expectations in many ways.  However, here are some ideas (perhaps they are too "small", but many smalls make a big!

Chat and video conferencing for many.

An Internet browser.

Folders for organizing FRIENDS (and then options for having folders show offline). (Friends who play Halo, Friends who don’t speak English, Underground Friends.)  We don’t even necessarily need more than 100, but until we can organize them (because not all friends play well together), it is difficult to go beyond 30 or 40.

A radial interface (why not stick with the 360 even in the interface?) so that we can go right to a specific submenu from the top directory.

Another suggestion I just thought of, but have been wanting for a very long time:

The ability to choose on a friend-by-friend basis whose notifications I see and whose I don’t.

If you have lots of folks on your Friend’s List, it can be very distracting to see the "so-and-so is online/offline", etc. messages popping up every two seconds..

1. Achievements should be restricted to XBOX 360.  Or you should have a separate achievement score for other devices.  So if you gain achievements for Shadowrun on the PC, that would be added to your PC achievement score.

2. Streaming Radio on XBL.

3. Voicechat for multiple people.

4. Clan integration outside of the individual games.

5. Preview of gamerpics/themes before you download.

6. Better organized menu system for Live Marketplace.

7. More detailed data about your achievements (check out mygamercard.net for what I am talking about)

Thank you for the opportunity Ozymandias!

First of all Xbox Live needs (NEEDS!) built in clan support. It is mandatory!

Second: share more infos through xml web-services.

As an example, sharing played games data will let the community build automated online tournament tools.

Your community is dedicated, use it!

Third: we want movies and IPTV in Europe too!

Regards, Obelix360

1) Please have group chats. Please.

2) Plus make quality control on some achievements for future games. For example: Apparently it is easier to get 10,000 kills in GOW than it is to win one game of online multiplayer gmae for F.E.A.R..

3) The ability to listen to voice messages on xbox.com.

4) Playlists that are more than 100 or 250 or whatever it is. Some people have a lot of music.

5) Clans built into the dashboard. You the a friends tab, a messages tab, and a recent player tab? Well there should be a tab that has clan members so I can put all the people that I know in real life in one group.

6) Larger friends list.

I think Live should just be me. Regardless of where/what.when I use my Live account, it should have everything I want, all tied together, accessible at my fingertips. Sure, it would have to scale depending upon the device which I use to access my Live account, but it should happen.

As it stands now, I have a google/yahoo/flickr/youtube/Live/various messageboards/email address/phone # etc. That sucks. I want ONE thing that inntegrates it all together. I want it all on a Live account and I want all my devices (phone/mp3 player/computer/game console) to be Live aware.

When I’m on my computer I want to be able to tag a video I like as a favorite. That needs to be tied to my Live account, so when I’m out at a bar for a drink with some friends, I can pull out my phone, and show it to them through my Live account. Or on my 360, or wherever.

I see a cool jacket or something and take a picture with my cell. That should immediately be linked to my Live account and viewable on all my Live devices.

When someone calls me and leaves a voicemail, I want that voicemail to try and find me wherever I’m logged in. If I’m playing Halo 3 or whatever, flash me a message that I have a voicemail. If I was at my computer, it should send it to me as well. Or if I get sent an email, that email should try and find me wherever I am logged in. If everything was Live aware, it should be able to send it to my phone/console/mp3 player/whatever and keep it all in sync as well.

I should also be able to set threshold limits for when/where I want to be bothered. 1 voicemail? Don’t bother me until I check it. Voicemail after voicemail piling up? Alert me.

Alot of this type of stuff already existed in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cordless_Phone_System , which was YEARS ahead of its time. You’d do well to get in touch with the guys who put that out, they were visionaries.

I had one and it was FANTASTIC. I would still use it today if it didn’t require Win 98 and I still had a landline. It tied my home phone and email together and would contact me via email, text message, or phone call depending on how it was setup. It would read me my emails if I wanted it to, etc. All my calls were logged and I could go over every single type of communication that was ever made on my home network (data and phone). It was great.

Also, go ahead and make the Metaverse happen. Take up a few gigs on the 360 hardrive and dump 3d models/textures/etc on it and construct a basic framework world that people can sign into when they get on Live. It would be a glorified chatroom really but people would love it. Make it a 3D graphical frontend by which one could browse Live Marketplace. Sure hit a couple buttons to watch a movie clip in the plain old 2D way. But what if you could take your avatar and go into a virtual theater and watch the movie clip with other people. Or watch games that way, a la DOA 4 and Gotham TV. Instead extend that to the entire Live network. Essentially, build a free WoW that people use to hang out in, get new content (pics, movies, demos, etc.), and also as a luanchinng pad for other games. Sort of like a giant virtual Disneyworld. Each game/area would have it’s own pavillion, etc. Not to mention the INSANE amounts of money you could make selling people stuff to trick out their charaters. (On a side note, you might want to read "Tea from an Empty Cup" by Pat Cadigan or the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Both are fictional worlds that touch on these ideas)

In 5 years, the bandwith/storage space/processing power will be there to make this happen. It’s something that needs to be started working on right now though. It would be THE killer app of the next gen of console.

1. More "free" things that come with the subscription. The subscription should include pics, themes, new maps, etc. The ammount of pay for content should be equal to what we get for being subscribers.

2. Dont allow PC players to play with xbox live users. Yeah, it will be great to boast about more numbers, but it will be pc vs xbox every game on every topic. Its not going to be good for the community.

3. Police the community. Warn people for being a jackass to other people. Promote an environment where everyone can play and have fun. Give random awards for people being caught being a good community member. I know it sounds 3rd grade, but if the shoe fits.

4. Chat room for multiple people on the dashboard would be nice.

5. Expand on the achievements. Do a better job keeping out achievement import, save and boosting hackers. Make achievement worth something. Even if its only a special gamerpic, like gears when you beat it on hard.

6. User created content. Give players the tools to make new maps for halo, new quests and dungeons for oblivion, etc.

7. More online games with character development. Chromehounds, R6 and saints row do a great job at this, but it could be improved and expanded even more.

8. Dedicated Microsoft servers to host

9. Clan support. Clan rankings, clan achievements, etc.

Has anyone said web browser yet? It’s kind of conspicuous that the 360 is the only console out there without one available – including handhelds.

Regarding ‘Gold’ subscriptions – surely these are being dropped soon? I’m imagining what the reaction might be if the PC- sorry, "Games for Windows"- editions of Halo 2, Shadowrun, Gears etc. require you to pay to play online.

Related to that, has there been any thought about franchising Live servers to shore up the network’s infrastructure? I have no idea whether that would technically be possible, or if lag is a serious enough problem (I assume that if the service is being extended to PC users, the amount of traffic might increase very quickly).

Just make all games have the same matchmaking as Halo 2. That’s all I ask. Bungie perfected it, but all these next gen games can’t even duplicate it.  Ranking, parties, matchmaking. It’s beautiful!  

I would like to see the ability to delete games from my profile that I know longer own or live arcade demos.  I have games my brother owns that I have only booted up and don’t have a single achievement because of that.  My game library seems much larger than it actually is.

I agree 100% with OS Perry: Xbox live should first and foremost concentrate on its core business: multiplayer gaming. The lobbies, the matchmaking, and the online ranking of all 360 games so far are all deeply flawed, and none come close to Halo2 in this area. Also, much more ongoing attention should be focused on the matchmaking and the offered multiplayer modes of games, so that even when the number of players go down, it’s still possible to find an online game.

Improved voice quality of headsets would be awesome. Seriously, I can barely hear what some people are saying

Seeing what your friend is playing, even without owning a copy of the game would be awesome

Finally, the last three requests I have are for the 360 itself, not for just "LIVE!".

Could there be a way to transfer music to your 360 from your mp3 player? Not streaming, but actual "drag and drop" type of action. I have a huge music collection bought from itunes, and burning all the CDs and ripping them to my 360 would take forever.

Could you guys (xbox 360 team) give us tha ability to use our pictures for gamerpictures and dashboards? Really, I can’t buy a Megadeth theme off of XBL, but I’ve love to be able to use my own pictures.

Last, would you give people a subscription for stuff off of live? Like, fifteen bucks a month for unlimited XBLA games and dashboard themes/ gamerpics.  That would rule. At least offer gamerpics for free, as we would only turn around and use them, therefore advertising your product.

1. to chat with more than one person

2. to do a video chat in dashboard with more than one person

3. video chat PIP (picture in picture) like when your daed and waiting for game to finish you can video chat with friend.

4. clan support throught whole community not just per game situation

5. update the recent players list fore accurately (lots of times it says they are offline, but when i click their name they are online)

6. more moderators, employed people who play games and keep cheaters boosters in line.  

I really like what tacklebox (a few people a head of me) said i copied most of his ideas and im too lazy, dido everything he said i didnt list.

1) I DON’T wont to play with people on other platforms! People buy different platforms for difference reasons.  When i’m playing my xbox, i don’t wanna play with the kind of people you get on PC and when i’m playing my PC i dont wanna play the kind of people you get on xbox.

2) I DO want clan support built into Live itself.  This would be a real killer feature. Obviously everyone has fallen in love with the clan system since H2. So just put it in the blade. Trying to get all your friends into Gears is a real head-ache sometimes.  Also hierarchical friends list would be nice – not to futuristic i hope.

3) Keep it a GAMER thing!  Focus Mircosoft.  Don’t go all social-networking bollaks on us.  Don’t try to force a wider gamer demographic onto the Live service.  I don’t care if i can buy music off it or if your going to put MSN Encarta 2010 on it.

4) EVERYONE wants the marketplace on the xbox to be richer.  The endless lists of text without pictures or video is ridiculous.  I can’t believe its gone unresolved for so long.  Themes without a preview? Hello? WTF?  The complete market place should also be accessible via the Internet, picture, previews, videos ‘n all – and hence would be accessible on all platforms/devices

5) Put national & worldwide tournaments on there.  Again, all the stats and info related to this should be completely mirrored on the internet. We love stats and info.  Hold all that juciey stuff in a centralized place so that we can browse ranking tables and stuff in ONE place.  The internet!

6) And a little *** wouldn’t go a miss either.

Re: "Has anyone said web browser yet? It’s kind of conspicuous that the 360 is the only console out there without one available – including handhelds."

So I’m curious. What exactly would you/do you do with a web browser on a console? Remember that not everyone has an HDTV, so you can’t assume PC Monitor-like resolutions. Also remember the challenges of navigation, UI, and use.

So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?

You should make all live free.

Mabey you could add adverts after logon to fund downloadable games like that Gizmondo Gadget was going to do before those crooks at the top mucked things up,i was looking forward to Halo portable on it how about a portable xbox with wifi and free live funded by adds now.

I’d like to see the ability of a user to upload saved games to the Live server. This is great in case of a HD crash or a way to retrieve a saved game to another friends 360. It could be similar to the .mac concept of web based storage.

How about the ability to use a bluetooth dongle in one of the USB ports so I can use my wireless keyboard, mouse and headset etc. with live?  

Personally I would like to see two things addressed.  First the spotty problems with voice chat fixed once and for all like they were on the original XBOX.  Second I would like to see the addition of user created content as was promised at E3 a few years back.  Finally, before you make more content available like movies and television shows it might be nice to have a bigger Hard Drive than 20 GB.  But this hard drive needs to be affordable considering if we were able to use external drives we could get one very reasonably priced.  Like 320 GB for $160.  I know these aren’t exactly future centric ideas but before we start wandering off into new territory what you have going should be maximized and perfected.

I would definatly like to see private chat with more than one person, I know the Xbox Community has been asking for this for a long time now, can we please see if this is possible. Also, Why don’t we have Halo 2 style Matchmaking on Popular Live Titles, like Rainbow 6, GRAW, and Gears of War. I know Microsoft has stated that it encourages cheating, but the truth is and most would agree, cheating is never fully stoppable, and I am sure everybody who plays shooting games on Live would like to have this in spite of the cheating that occurs! One last request, Since we can send pictures to our friends, how about Video through the camera! In one instance where this could have been helpful for me is a friend could send me a video to show where that 30th COG Tag is, instead of trying to describe it, it would be much easier!

Tnanks Xbox Live Team, Live is truly the best!!!!

There are many things that should be in the furture of xbox live. Some that i would like to see get "added on" are a internet browser, music downloads, and A BIGGER HARD DRIVE.

INTERNET BROWSER. This is something that should be on live. If the over sized george foreman grill(ps3) has one, and the tiny winy wii has one, then why not make the best console out of the three have one.

There should be a music download section where you cand download songs.

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My biggest concern relates to the addition of PC gamers to the Live world.  PC games are historically and notoriously hacked by PC gamers to cheat/enhance.  I’d like to see this issue be addressed in Live’s future.  If we’re going to be comparing Gamerscores and Achievements, we need to be assured that we’ll all be on an equal playing field.

If PC games will be Live enabled, they should not have any Achievments and count to your gamerscore. PC games are way to easy to hack and inflate your score. This would be unfair to those of us that take pride and work hard at getting a nice gamerscore.

An adult only age verified Live.

A couple of comments that I realize aren’t specfically live issues because they’re developers problems, but I wish all live games had to use the "party concept" like Halo 2 has where the host duties shifted if the host drops out.

Also any and all efforts to stop cheating and boosting are welcome. I’ve been a Live subscriber for almost 4 years and I’m starting to sour on the hyper competitive nature of some gamers attitudes. Consequently, Online-COOP has become my most favorite of my live usage lately. Gears has set the standard for COOP play. If Epic used H2′s party concept coupled with their stellar COOP, GOW would be the PERFECT GAME.

Thanks for listening.

Wouldn’t adding a browser just open it up to security vulnerabilities? There has already been one found on the Wii. Besides what do you really need a browser on a game console for?

If the 360 had a web browser, doesn’t that open the 360 up to the vulnerabilities that using a browser entails?

That’s the main reason I see no need for a 360 browser.

1) A web browser. Seriously. Yeah, maybe it’d make the 360 cut into media center PC stuff. But I have an internet connection and an HDTV, so why not?

2) The ability to just mute all chatter. Sometimes I just don’t care. I ignored it when I played PC games online and it was OMFG N00B text. The solution of ‘turn your headset volume down and take it off’ is not good enough.

3) PC games as unranked only. That’s fine with me. If people are gonna cheat, at least give them no concrete reason to do so.

4) The ability to sign up on the internet and just put in user/pass on the console. If you can do this now, I’m clueless, but the one reason my partner’s brothers don’t have Live is that their dad claims he doesn’t understand how to set it up on their Xbox (not 360).

5) Own pictures for gamer profiles. I understand that allowing gamers to put whatever they want opens up the flood of ‘deez nuts’ and cockandballs pictures, but not everyone is an idiot.

I would like the ability to modify the look and feel of my xbox 360′s dashboard. Also, make the guide much quicker… please!

I want Halo 2′s party system a requirement for 360 multiplayer games (or some other system where when the host quits the game finds the person with the next best connection, instead of booting everyone) Some games feel pretty archaic next to Halo’s system. In some cases you’re better off calling the person you’re trying to play with to coordinate how you will get into a match together than the half-assed browsers in the game.

<<So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?>>

What would I do with it?  For one, it would allow me to leave my laptop out of the living room.  It’s quite nice having the ability to check email or favorite sites from the couch.  From a gaming perspective, it would be nice to be able to look up game hints/tips/walkthroughs without having to go to the office, then come back, then go back to the office, etc.

Plus, Microsoft seems to be trying to evolve (or at least, market) the 360 as the centerpiece of an entertainment center (HD Movies with the HD-DVD drive, the Video Marketplace, streaming content from PC’s,) so why not add the web browsing component of that?  It seems that it would fit nicely into the niche that is being carved out for the 360.

-Multiple private chat with more than 2 people

-to way to know how amny kills you have with each weapon in every game.

Live needs to support more games like the old Crimson Skies and Top Spin 1, where two local players could sign in at the same time with their own gamertags and be able to play against other people on Live. Few if any 360 games support this now, and I miss it dearly.

Additionally, most achievements that can be gained over Live multiplayer should also gained in local versus or co-op.

I agree with Colin above that many games have their local multiplayer options stripped out in favor of Live only (like Namco’s XBLA titles). This is horrible and should not be allowed!

Finally, MULTIPLE CONSOLE households need to be better supported. If I have two consoles in my house, I want all people in the house to be able to play all games I purchased, regardless of what console they play on.

Redesign the system of ‘purchase rights’ on Arcade and Marketplace purchases. If tied to the console, after a console is replaced under warranty or other, the purchase will no longer function without an Internet connection to verify ownership.

1)Private chats between more than just 2 people. This would be alot more convinient that having to switch back and forth between chats. This is one big thing that my friends and I have been looking for for a while! This would make Xbox Live go from a 9.5 to a 10 in my book.

       Thanks,

          xlBmanlx

I would love to see support for different IM clients.  Also, add the ability to playback MP4 format videos would be nice too.

Not sure if anyone has suggested this (they probably have). How about a Clan blade on the dashboard. Were everyone in your clan is listed. The option to choose/design a logo for your clan and you can then challenge other clans etc, etc to games. One problem i am finding with games these days is the lack of clan support. Come on pick up the slack, live is suppose to be about playing together, playing with friends, yet how come its so difficult have clan support in games or a unified system for live.

A1. bility to send messages between xbox 360 and live messenger.

2. Video chat between xbox and PC

4. Able to list videos by their categories, series etc on the video part of the blade when streaming using media player 11 instead of just listing them in one huge list. which is annoying if you have a lot of videos.

5. Multichat in the dashboard over live / pc instead of just with 1 person. If it can be done in a game lobby, it can be done in the dashboard.

6. Built in clan features to the dashboard that developers can use. Making it more community orientated. And easier to find / challenge other clans. Also ability to create leagues or ladders with live.

group video chat

video messaging

have a video chat on ur computer thru xbox.com with someone on xbox live

I just want a 100+ friends list,

Say 200 then I’d be content

1. Voice chat for multiple people

2. Xbox Live matchmaking system, not just within the games.  For instance, instead of having a matchmaking system for Gears of War and Halo 3, have one unified system that’s the same for all games.  With a party system.

3. Faster animations on the Xbox Guide.  It takes forever for the friends list and stuff to come up, and it takes even longer if you’re trying to access multipla menus.

How about a Anti-cheating system first, something think “Punk Buster” and running games through a server not through the end-users Xbox. This would stop modding and any type of stand-bying. Have a Anti-Cheating system to check for mods  and  also connecting to a server to prevent the end-user from having all the power with their internet connection. For 50$ dollars a year THAT should already have been implemented. Should not cost money if you as the end-user is hosting a game. If it is 50$ a year for what it is now, how much more is it going to be if your Xbox is more of a media center

Video/ audio podcast on 360

bigger hdd

UK DL tv shows/videos

integration of Xbox Live Friends and Windows Messenger

If you want to make Live! the killer online app, take a page from the best… Blizzard Entertainment.  Battlenet has a great online ranking and matching system (Warcraft III) that Live just begs to use.  If Live tracked stats and matched players based on stat-based algorithms for games and had automated tournaments everyone and their mother would jump on.  At least anyone even a little interested in competition.  And their mother.

1. Clan Support. Tag prefixes and ranked matchmaking with clan members.

2. No more arbitrary 50 meg limit on XBLA games.

3. Standardized Host Migration across all Live games.

4. Better previews for Marketplace content. Be it pictures of small thumbnail videos.

Heres a really far off one that another user suggested: 3D lobbies where your custom avatar can walk around and interact with others. Think any MMORPG, Dead or Alive 4, or even Ninteno’s Mii.

-age limit for xbox live.

-the ability to change the tones of other people vocies during online games.

-a program on the dashboard which allows you to create your own gamerpics and themes.

-ms points should be sold indiviually, and not by the bulk.

-faster load times around the dashboard

-internet browser

-aim/msn messanger would be nice

-faceplates that would change color during temperture changes. (i.e it turns red when the room gets hot, or blue when the room gets cold)

One of my biggest gripes comes on a game by game basis, but could easily be fixed if integrated into live as a whole.

Currently, only a handful of games allow you to see who is speaking, and when they do, they mostly only do so in the lobby. If I am using live to meet new players(potential friends) I’d love to see the names of people as they are speaking. Perhaps an overlay that can be toggled via personal settings.

In games like Lost Planet, it is difficult to know who the annoying screamer is in order to mute them. A quick look at the (left for example) side of the screen to see who’s name has appeared as they are speaking would allow me to make these decisions.

Linking my PC to the 360 for storage i have a XP Media Center PC but with the marketplace i cant download a movie and then store it on my PC I have over a terabyte of HD space on my PC but only 20G on the 360 Sucks to not be able to move stuff from the 360 to my PC.

The remote access to a game a friend is playing would also be great to see how far they are or just to see if the game is worth it to me to buy

I think the private chat should have a group chat function.So that you and four or five buddies can chat without having to listen to the other immature kids in the game!

I would like to see mini games inside the Guide dash that I can play while I wait for the room to fill up and the host to launch. Sometimes it takes ages to find a game, but with mini games you can jump into an empty room and have something to do while you wait.

Friends of friends list- List that shows what friends of your friends are playing.

Dedicated Game Servers- I preffer games that have dedicated servers over live hosted servers.

Downloadable Music- Download music to your Xbox360 or Zune or any other "plays on windows" device straight from the 360.

Share files- be able to share files through Live and 360.

Wireless Zune- be able to stream music from your Zune to your 360 WIRELESSLY!

Email-  Be able to access your msn or Hotmail accounts from 360.

Video Game Recorder-  Be able to record footage of yourself gaming and send it to your Zune or Computer.

Tournaments-  Website dedicated to all 360 tournaments and ladders accessed directly from the 360.

and last but not least….

A WEB BROWSER!!!!  Your competitors have it for God’s sake!

I would like to back up the requests for a web browser through the 360. The third party one through media center is very hard to use. Browsing the net from your 360 should be a fundamental part of the xbox live service.

Another suggestion is a one button acceptance for xbox live requests (such as invites to private chat/game etc). Say back button or something like that.

The need for being able to use private chat with 4 people has been stated numerous times and I second that. Even if it can’t be implemented in some of the more intensive games it should be fine for the dashboard or arcade games…

There should also be a party system forced for all games that accept at least 8 people over live. You should be able to group together and go in as a team. It is playing with mates that makes xbox live such a success, it should encourage this at every step.

In regard to the achievments, it shouldn’t lock so many points away in ranked multiplayer where those that aren’t interested in playing on our own with people taking things way to seriously won’t be able to get them. Gamerscore points should be evenly distributed accross ranked and unranked multiplayer achievements. Just because we want to use xbox live to relax and have fun with friends doensn’t mean we don’t want to be able to unlock achievements, especially when we are reaching the same goals just not in ranked…

Obviously on the hardware side the other overwhelming request from the xbox forums is for a hdmi cable so that we can enjoy true 1080p hd on those capable tv’s that don’t have vga.

Good luck with any of the above, it is great to see that you are asking for our suggestions.

Use of your Xbox 360 guide, while your playing an original Xbox game.

Clans,clans,clans let me play ranked matches with my friends like in halo2 what the point of a friends list.    I know some people will be just play player matches but when i want a challenge against guys who i dont play with everday and know there strategy.

Xbox 360

- Group video/chat in dashboard

- Customization of every dashboard blade

- Bigger freakin’ hard drive

Xbox.com

- Send pictures to your XBox via Xbox.com

- View pics via XBox.com

- MSN alerts for friends (what happened to this?)

Xbox Live

- How about some Live Arcade games that aren’t shallow games from the early 80′s? Specifically more of the games we’ve recommended on the XBox.com forums, such as Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Daytona USA (it could probably work), Re-Volt (you know, the game on the XBL beta kit?), VF2, Bomberman, etc. Maybe more releases per week, too. We’ve been let down a lot on the arcade side, and this would be a good way to make it up to us.

- Xbox news area, for events like Game with Fame, contests, and such

- Although it’s not a problem for myself, a lot of people are complaining about friend lists being too small.

- picture pack / theme previews

- ability to check off any new releases on the marketplace so they don’t show up again

I’ll probably think of some more suggestions when I have free time…

I love what is the Xbox and Xbox 360, but it:

a) Needs a bigger Hard Drive, or the ability to save files encrypted (so I can save T.V. shows/games, then stream them) to a PC in my network.

b) Live Messenger compatibility so anyone can speak to me (screw a browser, thats what computers are for).

c) VOIP compatability (if cell phones can call to thats great).

I’ll list mine:

- Multi-person chat. I want to be able to have a mass conversation with my friends. And I don’t just mean 4-way chat, I mean… as much as a connection can handle. It kinda sucks for me and my buddies having to organize our games via messaging or playing a game of Uno whilst chatting on that.

- Bigger HDD. Marketplace keeps getting bigger, plus with the IPTV functionality I want a bigger hard drive. I also want MS to offer a way of quite literally moving my HDD data to my new HDD without any DRM issues or whatnot, so I don’t have to re-download my stuff and (in some cases of the video marketplace) pay for the same stuff twice.

- Access to my XBL friends list via MSN. Plus the ability to see the gamercards of my contacts who have XBL but aren’t on my friends list. Also, I’d like my Xbox Live friends to be able to see that I’m on messenger and be able to send me IMs from the console. In regards to this, I’d also like the option to make my email address public or not so my friends may add me to MSN Messenger if I’m alright with that.

- Friends organization. I’d like to be able to categorize my friends into different groups. I have buddies from all sorts of different sites, forums and groups at college on my list so I’d like to be able to work out who some of them are without getting ‘em muddled up.

- Customized Personal Gamer pic. This is wishing a lot, but I’d like to be able to put my own image (not just from the vision cam) onto my personal pic. I’d be able to upload this picture on Xbox.com.

- Social Networking for Gamers. You should create a more networked community with Xbox, letting us perhaps upload our photos to Xbox.com and generally add more casual internet user features to our Gamertag. These functions could be accessed either from Xbox.com or the console itself.

- YouTube of games. Right now, this YouTube of games costs us about $100 a year. What I’d like is for the ability to download free homebrew games to my console.

- Web Browser. We NEED this function. Wii and PS3 have it.

- More file formats supported on Windows Media Connect. I don’t know if this is possible, but it should be compatible with any codec we have for Windows Media Player that’s installed on our PC and not just WMV.

A web browser and live messenger Pleaseeeeeeeeee

Funny that you’re asking for suggestions, because I’ve thought of a couple of them recently. They’re not exactly 5-year-plan "big" ideas like you’re searching for, but I think they’re good ideas.

- Ability to view all Xbox Live leaderboards from xbox.com

- Detailed Game Invite information, i.e. so-and-so invites you to play Gears of War: Co-op, Act 2, Insane. Right now it just says so-and-so invites you to play Gears of War, so you dont know if you’re joining a Warzone, Execution, or co-op game before joining.

- To have different categories for your friends list, namely sublists per game. For example I have a lot of friends I met playing Gears of War, but when I’m playing a different game, I don’t want to see a notice every 60 seconds when one of these guys comes online.

- When you select an achievement you can view all people who have the achievement (It would be cool watching new names pop up as they earn em.

- Maybe the ability to prioritize your achievements by which ones you’re proudest of (or however you’d like), so when someone views your profile they’ll quickly see , for example, "Wow, this person survived 1 Million in Geometry Wars, Perfected all events in Burnout Revenge, and is ranked SS in DOA4." Make them badges, like Boy Scout Badges or Medals of Honor.

- You have the ability to specify why you’re giving someone bad feedback (i.e. cursing, trash-talking, team-killing, etc).  Why not have choices for giving them good feedback? Tell them what they’re doing right.

- Ability to leave a voice message that is longer than 15 seconds so I don’t have to talk really fast. I mean, seriously.

- Easier Typing

- It would also be nice if the system did not freeze sometimes when pressing the Xbox Guide Button. This doesn’t happen as often to me as it used to, but it still exists.

Why do you need a browser on a game console?

Why do you need to rent movies or buy TV shows on it either? Why make it play music from other places?

It’s just a game console, it doesn’t need to play music that’s not in the game.

Just you know, saying

Okay, here’s the thing:

I have 2 parts of my life in technology right now. on one side, I have my tried and true launch day Xbox 360, and on the other, I have My New Zune. But that’s the problem-they are two, eventhough they come from the same company(Microsoft, duh)What I would like would take 2 stages. One would be able to convert the movies and TV shows from the new marketplace (I love the new video marketplace) and the second would be able to take In game movies and put them on your Zune. Oh yeah, and a bigger hard drive. another cool feature would enable you to share the movies to your zune if you have a wireless networkig adapter. These things would make the Zune-Xbox 360 combo a 1-2 punch.

Oh yeah, and a bigger hard Drive.

Thanks

eatbacon22

I think more people added to private chat, even if its only available on the dashboard.

Also a clan tab or list like the friends list but carries over to all games.

How about group chat? The best thing about live is getting a few friends together for a match of something, but trying to organise it switching between different 1 to 1 voice chats is not very easy and seamless. Multiple voice chat cant be hard to do at all!

Lots of good ideas so far…

I’d like the ability to defrag my hard drive.

Ever since I "rented" a movie via marketplace every action that accesses the HD has slowed.

VIDEO download for the Canadians.

A dedicated Server for Asian region. Australia in particular to reduce the lag between countries. Its a killer at the moment.

Increase Friends List, 100 to small not all 100 people are online at any one time.

Friend List to have more info eg. What country there from.

Clan support

Provide warning before Gold account expires.

Internet Browser

Ability to make the Gamertags of friends bigger, so their personal pictures don’t look so small.

Schedule of Release dates of Arcade games

Price drop on older Arcade games

Weekly or biweekly xbox live content guide, showcasing the best new/old media on xbl.

Ability to better integrate the dashboard with Halo 2.

Make older movie downloads ones that you can keep. Increase the rental time to 2 or even 3 days. I’d rent lots more movies if I got more than 1 stinking day.

-More detailed profiles. Seeing a motto when looking at a persons profile is cool and all, but doesnt exactly give me much information on the person. kind of defeats the purpose of a profile, no? I suggest allowing atleast the basic A/S/L options for profiles.

-Weekend tournaments hosted by the XBL team would be cool. Possibly giving away 400 gamerpoints to the winner of a Gears of War tournament to spend on whatever he/she chooses? Would give some of us great incentive to not only purchase XBL, but also to keep the current members addicted and hooked.

I’d like to see a bigger friends list for Gold members and a better online system. The interface for most games are clunky and hard to use. It’s hard to get into a game with friends and do what you want. I know it’s up to the developers but..

There needs to be a way to authorize / deauthorize Marketplace purchases, similar to the system Apple has with iTunes.  Content not working properly when you have to get your XBox 360 replaced (or if you upgrade it if a newer version ever comes out) is simply not cool.  Deauthorize from the old one, authorize on the new one – it should be that simple for end users.  This process of calling up customer service and waiting for refunds is ludicrous – not to mention that there is no current way to restore freebies (like when Texas Hold’ Em was free).

Xbox 360

-Fix ALL headset issues (Both the wired and the wireless headset need to be much, much louder.  They’re not even as loud as the original Xbox mic.  All the problems with the wireless headset in general need to be fixed.  The 360 controller is perfect, why can’t the headset be?)

-Group Chat

-More dashboard customization

-Faster loading of menus (Should be instant)

Xbox.com

-MSN alerts to return

-Themes/Gamerpic previews available as soon as they are available for download on the marketplace.

Xbox Live

-MANDATORY Halo 2 style matchmaking in all multiplayer games

-Themes/Gamerpic previews on the Marketplace

-New Content every week

How about lowering the cost, and/or making a subscription a 2 year thing.

It’s not like MS need the money, and they’re sorta taking the piss.

Quite a few comments for poor Ozymandias to read through.

My wish is better integration with the rest of Microsoft. The worst for me is that users basically have to sign up for both a Gamertag (must be unique) and a Live ID (must be unique). The Gamertag isn’t even a login IMO as there’s no authentication/password.

Some of these aren’t under Xbox Live but are related:

Windows Media Player vs Zune Player

PlaysForSure vs. Zune

Live ID vs. Gamertag

Live Contacts vs. Xbox buddy list

Messenger and Hotmail vs. Xbox-based messaging and chatting

I’d dearly love to be able to remove games from the played list, yes even if a few points were lost from the gamerscore in doing so.

Just because I played something for an hour before giving it to a friend/colleage I don’t want it hanging around my profile with 15 points on it.

I’d like to see marketplace items such as video’s and demo’s downloadable on Xbox.com. After that you can just put it on a usb stick or cd and copy it to your Xbox’s hard drive. This would be great for people that don’t always have their Xbox connected to the internet or that can get a better internet connection elsewhere.

- More devices able to copy XBox Live content. Example: ability to copy Gamer Profile to Zune, take Zune to a friends and then load my profile from the Zune.

- Ability to view Gamer info on third-party devices. For example if I copy my profile onto my Zune I’d also like to see all the games I’ve played, my current score/pic.

- Compare gamer profiles “offline” on devices and later sync profiles to friends list. Meaning I can beam my gamer profile to another Zune and when they plug in their Zune my gamertag will be added to their friend’s list. Also done via Windows Mobile, some other device, etc.

- More “status” information. When I log into XBox Live I want to see if my friends are gaming, or if they’re watching TV what they’re watching or if they are streaming from MCE what are they streaming? If I’m on the computer then I’d like to set a status message like “Working on code” and you’d see: “Computer: Working on code” via XBox 360. If they’re playing music via their Zune software or WMP I’d like to see the actual song.

- Collect status information and make it available to use for download/consumption by US, not third-parties, unless we allow it. I want to see how much TV I watched or track how much my friends have watched/played. That would make a cool Vista Sidebar gadget, how much computer vs. 360 vs. on mobile vs. watching TV time. For parents they could have their kids sign-in via their profile to watch TV but after 3 hours a day an SMS or instant message is sent to their Live enabled device of choice.

- Cross-device notifications. If a buddy logs onto XBox 360 it would be nice if Messenger or Mobile or a Vista Sidebar or SMS was sent.

- Ability to mark friends at different levels. Some people are my close mates, some random people, others are family members.

- Notification of achievements unlocked by friends. If I get a txt that a friend just beat Chapter 1 of Gears on Insane I may decide to jump on either to join or realize I need to play more to catch up.

- PC viewing of “Live” content, as in trailers and video marketplace content.

- Consistent Live UI!!!! Unify everything in more than just name.

- Ability to see friends list, gamer score, compare games, etc. from Windows Mobile.

- Media mobility. Give me the “R” in DRM. Let me copy downloaded TV from XBox 360 to Zune to my Computer to Device X.

- Ability to stream music/video bought from marketplace on any Live enabled device.

- Cross-device themes. Buy the Gears of War theme pack for my 360 but now get access to a windows wallpaper and IM buddy icon from windows.

- Live WiFi spots that are free/cheaper for Gold members. Or partner with Starbucks so if I’m an XBox Live Gold member I can get a better deal than their horribly expensive WiFi rates. Or at least limited Wifi, so maybe I can’t browse the web but my Live Wifi devices, like Zune, can be sync’d. Any music I’ve rated on my Zune syncs to my home PC or give me a blade interface on my UMPC/Zune so I can trigger remote downloads and next I wander by a LiveFi/open WiFi spot it sends my requests.

- A dedicated Microsoft DVR that’s $200 and runs MCE with ability to backup content to WHS or another machine. So I’m recording TV it can make room by moving prior recorded content off device. The MCE/HTPC concept is still too weird for a lot people. Give them a dedicated box, lock it down, sell it cheap. Or make it like the HD-DVD, a seperate hardware attachment that contains tuners and CableCARD support.

- Live + GPS + Maps. Ability to see where all your friends are on a Friday night via GPS on a map on your mobile device or even 360. Different privacy levels, show by exact GPS or city or state, cool for gathering stats on where everyone lives during a match online or finding exactly which bar your mates are at since they’re a

I already posted, but i just remembered one other thing…..

-Better enforcement over what goes on marketplace, and what price they can be. Microsoft should definitely have a bigger hand in how this works. Publishers like EA have absolutely abused the marketplace by charging ridiculous prices for the most menial of things. New maps? Thats a marketplace item. Rims and decals for your car? Should be abolished! I a feel a lot of the content should be free after a certain time period as well. Kind of like the way things were done on the original Xbox in regards to maps and whatnot (halo 2, pandora tomorrow). It just isn’t fair that i can’t play certain games like GRAW with my friend anymore, just because he bought something that i did’nt.

-I also believe some of the stuff thats been on marketplace for awhile should go on discount at some point. I’ve been waiting forever for games like Zuma and Feeding Frenzy to go down in price. Neither of which had any business charging 10 bucks for in the first place.

-What I’ve always dreamed of is cross platform gaming but with different aspects to the game. For example; someone on the PC is the commander of a game. He can see the entire map and can issue orders and waypoints for the team members. The guys on the 360 are the shooters, pilots, drivers etc. They are in contact with the commander and can see and hear the orders that the commander gives them.

-The content seems very hard to find. I have to do a lot of digging just to find things that should be very easy to find.

Hey Ozzy-

I’d like to be able to send FUTURE game invites to friends.  If they accept it, it shows up on their Dashboard *calendar* – or when that day comes, everyone involved gets an in-game reminder.

That would make it so much easier to schedule gaming sessions via Live.

Cayne said:

"An adult only age verified Live."

Second that. Or at least a filter so you can choose if you want to play with younger people or players your age.

And one more thing: more effective actions against D***heads. People constantly insulting other players for no reason should experience some serious penalties. I don`t see the point of filing complaints when nothing seems to happen to those racial idiots. Kick em, ban their IPs, I don`t care. I only know that nobody will be missing people calling you "F***ing Ni**er" just because you missed a headshot in GoW. Selecting "Underground" in your Gamecard should not be an invitation to scream and insult any other player.

BEING ABLE TO CHANGE THE COUNTRY LINKED TO YOUR ACCOUNT!!

I moved from USA to Canada and this is a huge pain in the butt. I cannot redeem any Xbox Live products that I bought in Canada because they do not match my old address (which is in USA). I contacted Xbox support 5 times and have been told the same thing "It is not possible to change the country that your account is linked to". What is your reasoning behind this? The only reason that I can think of is country exclusive content, but you already have a solution for it (country exclusive content cannot be accessed if the person’s account info does not match his IP address).

By doing this you are just hurting your sales and pissing off your customers. I have $150+ worth of XBL content (codes for MS points, XBL subscription, etc.) that I cannot redeem and there is no way in hell that you can get me to make a new account (I would lose my gamertag, achievements, save files, and some premium content which is tied to my account).

Please take away this pointless country lock or do some kind of address confirmation thing (you send snail mail to the person’s address and if they send it back you update their country and address).

I’d like to also throw my vote in for age filtering.  I don’t want to play Gears of war with eight year olds and I would like it to be easier for my son to find other kids his age who play age appropriate games (such as Burnout).  And what is the future of Live without A LARGER HARD DRIVE!!  Seroiusly, give us external drives and make the manufacturer pay $10 per drive to be "Xbox 360 compatable."  I’d already be downloading Movies and TV shows if I wasn’t already space cramped on my 1 month old 360.  Heck, if it would work as an external hard drive for the 360 too, I might even get a Zune.  Hello? That might drive sales a bit for the iPod Killer.

MSN messenger live buddy intigration with cam support (hey it’s live in name but not on live!?)

internet browser.. as we are all in the high def age the resolution isn’t a issue now. and if you release a mini keyboard thing to bolt on to the joypad it would be useful and not a gimick.

IPTV.. but thats coming. ya! to the UK I hope!

email? but keyboard would be a must

attach pictures to messages on your friends list if you have a cam.

itunes type store with access to podcast, music and youtube or the new MS one they are doing.

online weather (like the wii! , latest news headlines, access to multimap or the MS one with Sat images. (a bit of a gimic that but always quite cool to show off to people

news tickers… (well tickers in general, would be cool if you could play a game and your favourite soccer or football team scores!!! and that popped up )

access to local information for your area, maybe book tickets or something via ticketmaster. shop area on live?

access to streaming video in more formats over the network or via cd. darn.. all my movies i take are mpg’s! not WMV grrrrrr

Imdb/gracenotes type thing when your watching a DVD/HD-DVD. so you can get information on tap in a side bar.

reminder, e.g. so you can set up a reminder if you are going to play gears at a certain time and date with your friends.

clan support in general on games.

I could think of lots more but MS should give me a job and pay me to!!!

Sort out the differnt district distribution, we know its awrkward but its not just america that wants tv and movies.

A Web Browser.

Multiple methods of text entry. Enable us to select a method of on-screen text entry (qwerty, numeric/phone, etc). Possibly enable T9-style dictionary entry on the numeric/phone option (although I understand that its compelx due to localization of dictionaries).

Also, I wouldn’t mind the ability in voice chat to mute everything except the voice chat itself.

Increase the limit of players aloud in a private chat room from 2 to 8+..

It seems ridiculous that on X-Box you could have a private chat with more the two people, but with the release of the 360 that number was cut back to two…

That’s all I can think about right now.

clan support, ability to play ranked games with friends, microsoft run dedicated servers(I know it’s never gonna happen), more community events(online tournys and such)

I Want a text/voice/video chat room feature. It must be all inclusive as well and allow me to communicate via audio and video with someone who is only communicating via text chat. It is retarded to have to go create a uno game solely to voice chat with (a limited number) of friends. Keep the private chat feature the way it is, I value being able to talk to someone playing a different game than me. But I also want a seperate and distinct chat room function as well. It would be nice, but not vital to be able to scroll down a list of public/private chat rooms and have options to join and block people from joining. PC’s have been doing this forever, why can’t XBL?

1. Some Extended Achievement System is what i want (i hope you understand me, since im german):

A real time tracker on top of the achievement list or within your gamercard which tracks your total xbox usage.

Maybe this could be divided onto what you spent your time with (showing times for individiual games, the dashboard, movies etc.).

Another Button on top of your achievement list or within your gamertag page for listing your position on each leaderboard of every game you have played.

The raw data is already at microsofts hands and the list could be updated every 24 hours in order to reduce traffic for the ms servers.

Both should be an option which you can disable if you dont want your stats to go public

2. Way more arcade games to choose from. One in a week is nice, but Pacman, Ms Pacman and New Rally X should have been released on one day. They attract a special brand of customer and not the large audience out there awaiting games like Heavy Weapon and such. Maybe some extra cheap games for like 150 pts.

Higher size cap of arcade games.

3. Free Stuff is always welcomed by the whole community.

4. Option of adding a 3 letter Tag within brackets (?) (i mean those -> [ < - ;) sry again for my bad english) in front of your gamertag. maybe a separated Info page within your gamertag displaying custom clan messages.

5. Multiple Users in one voice chat. You could notify them that using this service with more than 2 users could affect the connection speed.

6. Although i have yet to inform myself if that is true i heard that the wii has some kind of news blade. Thats what i would like on my xbox. Maybe affiliated with some major news broadcasters (cnn in the usa right?).

7. Major Nelsons Blogcast for download !!!

8. Especially for Germany:

We want a Video Marketplace with full movies too.

9. Ok i read this somewhere in the first replies but I already thought of how cool it was if we could use our achievements as gamerpics.

10. Ability of Hiding Arcade Demos while browsing through other profiles.

i dont want people to delete their history of played games, but it would be nice for me to hide the demos while looking on their list of games.

Cant think of anything else right now.

Best regards

LordofCarthago

A TV web browser could end up being pretty useful.

It can’t really compete with a browser running on a computer, but imagine you are playing a game and want to check a walkthrough guide. You just save, exit to dashboard and check it out. Suppose you are watching a movie and want to find out more info on one of the actors. You don’t have to get up, you just fire up the "Explorer 360" or whatever and find out.

I understand MS is a little scared of the 360 cannibalising the PC market but I thing 360 browsing would act as supplementary to the PC browsing experience.

Plus, all of the other consoles have it.

I would personally like to see the ablity to stream some video format other than .wmv from my computer. I don’t see why they coulnt do that, i heard from someone that it’s because they don’t have certain legal rights to use other formats but if they can do it for WM Player why not xbox 360?

Another thing i would like is the ability to save multiple images you take with the vision camera to the HD. And the ability to turn pictures you pull up on your console from your computer into gamer-pictures.

Also a fully functional web browser would be nice not so much because i want it, but more so i don’t have to listen to n00bs tell me ps3 is better because it has one.

These are just what im thinking of at the moment and as soon as i post this i will probably think of a some that are way better, but, oh well.

MSN Messenger Integration is probably my #1 wanted thing.

A web browser comes close, because the 360s competition has it, and MS’s console doesn’t. MS’s console should’ve been the first one considering its Microsoft! Microsoft said they’d only implement it if the community wanted it. Make it an optional download, for those who don’t want to take the ‘risk.’ I don’t see a risk, but for those who do, then that’s fine. Also, it shouldn’t cost MS points! That would send lots of people away. I would LOVE a browser, and so would thousands of others. Keep on doing your job MS.

-arvinater

Not sure if these ideas have already been said, but I second them if they are

- Retail/episodic games available from marketplace

- The ability to have more than 1 person in a private chat, even if it is only in the dashboard

- The ability to apply user created content (for free) over Xbox Live, even if it was created on pc

- The ability to have the “new release” tag for marketplace items disappear when the user views the items

- The ability to see “new release” on the larger categories like “movies and entertainment”

- Generally faster speed of the guide opening and message sending

- Integrated support for team rankings and non-game-specific clans

- While this would require a keyboard to work well, an integrated IM client that would work with live messenger would be nice

1. Bigger Hard Drive

2. Bigger Friend’s list

3. Web Browser

4. Rent games from the marketplace

5. More movie studio support for video marketplace

6. Able to group friend’s.(ex. clan,family,real life friends)

7. When you view gamerpictures it loads so slow, please make it faster like you did to the arcade.

8. Did I mention bigger hard drive and friends list?

-A ANTI-CHEATING SYSTEM (PUNK BUSTER)…. That is not to much to ask for. Modders can die and go to hell. Learn to play the game and have some pride if you are just not as good as the other person.

i think that Ms should allow the users to upgrade their hadr drive themseleves by providing an upgrade kit. this kti would contain all the necessities such as screws, screwdriver, and a manual to allow the user to put in his/her brand new SATA 2.5" notebook HDD. Ms shouldnt release a bigger HDD and then sell it after the rip off price that they have been selling the 20 gig (well 14 gig) for. if they release a new HDD and its over a hundred bucks i would just let it go, and if its a hundred buck then when they sold us the 20 gig for that price and people bought it then it would have been admiting how unfairly price the 20 gig was.

What would I like…

Something on Live similar to the gaming zones, but for age, i.e. if I am 23, try not to pair me with a bunch of 9 year olds in Gears.

USB mouse and keyboard support in games. Touchy issue, I know…

More wacky peripherals. Guitars are on the way, but give me light guns, wireless retro joysticks, adapters to use Xbox 1 controllers, more creative new stuff.

We’ve got these great mic’s but no Karaokee game. Maybe offer the game free, sell song packs by Genre on Marketplace?

And I’m still waiting to import my own image to be a gamerpic…

I would like to see a federated/common interface for setting up leagues and organizing competitive play.

Following that common theme would be a common way to publish arbitrary stats from a game. (The game designers would decide which stats to publish.) Then provide an interface through live and also through the web to view/export/report off of those stats. If you expose these via web services you would get some really cool external tools for each game.

Merge the two above ideas together so that stats for a specific league could be exported and/or reported on. This would be great for keeping track of league leaders. And again, the community could drive the tools that generate the reports/leader board.

Think of this as a publish/subscribe model. Each game would publish its stats and league participation. Then tools can suck out those stats and do something meaningful with them.

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SnowToad

Well I guess I would like to be able to transfer my UK Xbox Live account to Canada, and other country of I ever decide to move back home to Norway. Currently my account is handicapped by not being able to download content to games I buy here in North America.

I could probably come up with other ideas but this is most important for me

Expanded Video Features / Zune Interoperability

I’m a huge fan of Xbox360 as media center.  The current marketplace media options are on the cusp of replacing my runs to blockbuster (although, nowhere near replacing netflix)

This would be my dream configuration:

I can cancel my netflix account and begin giving microsoft $25 a month for 30 hours or so of media which would expire at the end of the billing period or 48 hours, whichever came later.

A catalog comparable to your average blockbuster would be acceptable.

During the rental period, the license would allow for transfer of the media to a Zune device that was registered with the Xbox.  That way I could take my monthly allocation of Venture Brothers on business trips.

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IPTV – great idea can’t wait for it

LiveArcade – Great so far, but more classic console releases would be nice.  Also, would it kill anyone to release more than one game a week?  I know there are more games that would be worthwhile releases.  

Forgot my most important want…

I’ve got a mix of people on my friends list. Friends from real life, and people I played a good game with in some Live match.

I want these lists separated. Multiple friends lists.

- The web browser is hard to implement alongside parental control. I for one don’t think Xbox should have the browser. the Xbox is a gaming device not a media center.

- Make the Blades customizable!! have an advanced section where I can customize what blades I want to use. Perhaps two switchable sets, one simple one for just gaming, and another custom one with tons of blades for all sorts of crap like video chatting, downloads, arcade, web browser(eek). I would be able to switch between which blade set I see by holding the top two shoulder buttons or something.

- wow, give an inch we take a mile:)

I’d LOVE to see BLOGGING integrated into the XBL service:  

It would be so cool to be able to have a blog (even if it has to be a WindowsLive blog) tightly attached to your gamertag and viewable by friends on their 360s — That way my friends on XBL could read my blog and check out photos, videos, etc that I put from my pc onto my blog, right from their xbox on their tv.  

Also it would be great to be able to go the other direction:  take pictures (or even video) with the Xbox camera and upload them to the associated blog.

Thus the xbox could be a tool for PODCASTING, or even VLOGGING.

Even better, be able to record clips of gameplay on the 360 hardrive and put a link to the gameplay video on the 360-blog.

Also, why not go all the way and have an RSS blade  on the dashboard?  This would enable us to choose some RSS feeds to be downloaded automatically and be viewable from the 360!

Also, why not have a Digg -style blade:  have a dynamically sorted list based on user-input, of [blogs, videos, gameplay clips, podcasts] — so we could browse the social-type content available in the windows/xbox live universe?

Audio/Video chat from xbox <-> computer.

I see two long term (positive) advances in the Xbox universe relating to Microsoft’s Live initiatives over the next few years – Migration toward the mobile space, and digital content distribution.

1) Mobile Space – Following the advent of the 360, it is apparent that Xbox Live and Windows Live services are on something of a collision course. Baby steps leading to a sprint, I’d envision the rollout of services like IM, email, video chat, media (such as music and video) and the like which integrate with Windows Live services on PCs and mobile phones seamlessly as a starting point. From there I’d imagine Microsoft could launch a mobile gaming device which can then take all these services and intelligently blend them in a form factor for the road, with the added benefit of gaming and full connectivity to all these services and your 360 content – Video Marketplace included. Follow that up with additional fun feature upgrades like IP voice calls from the device (not unlike Uniden’s new toy for Live Messenger – http://www.uniden.com/messenger/win_eng.cfm), or even satellite radio via XMRadio or Sirius. Why not! That’d be an upgrade over the FM tuner in the Zune, for sure. The groundwork for all this seems to be in place or in motion already.

2) Digital Distribution – It really seems inevitable to me that all content is eventually going to go the download route.  I know, I know – Publishers FREAK when you say digital distribution as it immediately conjures up thoughts of rampant piracy. In the end, though, this can dramatically cut costs and provide a path for lesser studios to get their material out.  What is a 50mb Live Arcade title today will be on the order of Gears of War in the future. The path to this future involves much more than Microsoft, though – Getting infrastructure in place for Joe User and getting content providers onboard with the idea of digital content (i.e., a file) going from 360 to device like an MP3 player will take more time, but the Live service will assist in this evolution as more content providers see the potential.

i would love to see a group chat function.

This option scares me.  XBL has been a cheat free environment.  Adding the realm of PC hack/cheats/bots makes me wonder if the purity of the subscription will be maintained.

So my biggest ‘want’ is a secure environment.  I’m doomed.

I think if for not on the 360 but when on pc to have aol instant messenger like service would be awesome!!!

Andre, I will be hosting another All Things 360 – Round Table Discussion this Sunday, and could bring the topic up then… It’d be great if you could make it. It is on Skype @ 17:30 ET Sun. I’ll be posting details about it later tonight on AT-360.

As far as any ideas I have for "Live", I would like to second the motion for communities. Having the ability to make this big world smaller should be what "Live" is all about. After all, the best things in life were created as small ideas, and have grown into great things.

Thanks,

StreetChariot

http://xbox360.budware.com/ – All Things 360.

I forgot to mention calendaring.  Currently i use google calendar along with my wife and my sister and parents.  We are able to coordinate with it because its online and shareable — there’s no reason MS couldn’t do a similar thing thats also viewable (even if not editable) from the 360.  Or you could add game scheduling from the 360 to this windows calendar.  This could also allow for automatic reminders if a game is scheduled among friends.  

Spectator mode featuring an invisible flying camara so to speak…used to watch your friends in a game.

Movie "renting" service…

*Xbox 360 Hard Drive Enclosure

Sell a relatively cheap enclusure exactly like the one that encloses the current Xbox 360 hard drive. This would allow users to use any 2.5" hard drive as they would the current HDD. Presumably, the Xbox 360 would format all drives upon connection, preventing hacking.

*Ability to transfer media files to the Xbox 360 HDD through USB our netowrk

Ripping 50+ CD’s ONE AT A TIME is far from practical, and I like my files stored locally, no matter how efficient streaming may be.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~XBOX 360 NEUROSKY CONTROLLER~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Who needs motion sensing, when you can control the console with your thoughts?

NeuroSky has developed a cost effective bio sensor and signal processing system for the consumer market. Our wearable technology unlocks worlds of new applications such as wireless mobile phone interface, VIDEO GAME CONTROL, educational games and toys, etc.

The neurons that comprise the brain work on electrical impulses. The last century of neurological research has shown us that brainwaves of different wavelengths indicate different emotional states, like a focused awareness, a meditative state, or drowsiness. Brainwaves have been used in medical research and therapy for years. We’re bringing it to the consumer world.

Microsoft should aquire the rights to produce an Xbox 360 NeuroSky Controller. If it isn’t feasible now, it should definitely be done for the Xbox 360′s successor, which I believe should be named

XBOX SYNERGY

Ummm…Group Chat And Group Video Chat…And Integration Of Zune Marketplace Into The XBOX Live Service So When You Buy Songs On The Zune Marketplace You Can Download Them Onto Your 360 Too, Without Having To Burn Them To A CD…

AND A BIGGER HDD!!! THIS 20GB HDD IS REDICULOUS!!!

There are only 2 things I feel are lacking in this iteration of Live and they have been bothering me since I got my 360

1) I want the ability to go to a friends Xbox, and just retreive my gamertag.  I don’t want to recover my profile so it gets deleated from my own 360.  I want to be able to access my account on more than one Xbox.  It would be fantastic for when my friends and I get together and have Halo or Gears parties.  All the information is kept on Live servers anyway why can’t it be accessed by more than one Xbox?

2) What happened to the "and guest" privliges i had on Xbox 1?  If i wanted to play Crimsion Skies i only needed 1 Live account but two of us could play under one name.  I was sad to see that gone.  I was trying to show my friend how awesome Gears Of War online is and we had to pass the controller back and forth.  Functionality that was on old live should have been ported to New Live.

300 limited friends list. And a way to see whose online/ offline on 2 septerate parts

One more thing:  

Make content from video marketplace, XBL, downloadable onto Zune.  if i could put the music videos, trailers, movies on my XBOX Hd onto a Zune, i would buy one in a second.

You guys seriously need to make the friends list hold more than 100…sux that you need to delete folks in order to add others. I am not sure who thought up the ‘cap’ idea for this, but it was a bad one.

I would really like to see the ability to use secure NAS systems for storage of movies and tv shows, and other content for the 360.  I say secure because that way you could add hard drives to it but not be able to use them on a computer.

So far, so good … but there’s a lot of untapped potential here. I really like the retro 80′s coin-op games we’ve seen so far, but I understand if not everyone else does. I don’t play online as much as I’d like, but I would if there were more games for me. I’d like to see these titles on Live Arcade:

- A fun, multiplayer, episodic trivia game show. "You Don’t Know Jack" was terrific when it was new, and it would be a natural for Live. Track user scores so they only get points for the *first* time they answer questions, so people don’t memorize the shows and replay them for points.

- A fun, multiplayer space combat game in the vein of X-Wing/TIE Fighter/Battlesphere/Freespace, etc. The company that did Space Station Kaloki X had an underexposed game like this called Void War, which would be very welcome.

- A fun, multiplayer casual MMORPG like Yohoho Puzzle Pirates. In fact, Puzzle Pirates would be ideal for XBLA. I always wanted to play games like this from the couch.

- Popcap’s Bookworm Adventures. Bundle classic Bookworm with it — those (both) of us who bought the original XBOX version would like to play it in high resolution.

- The episodic Sam & Max games. The old SCUMM game would be nice too, of course …

General things I’d like to see: an affordable HDD upgrade for us early adopters, Divx streaming from any SMB share (not just Windows), some innovative new Star Wars games, silly freebies like Line Rider, and Space Giraffe!

I would like to have the option to have all my friends on my friends list who are playing the game I am to show at the top of my friends list, much like just about every Xbox title did.  I still cant understand why this was left off of the 360.  Keep up the great work though, the 360 rocks!!

Please bring a WWW browser to the 360, and enable it to catch RSS feeds.  I also want a more robust media player on the 360 (ala Windows Media Player) that will play more audio and video formats.

I love how Live is coming to new devices. Here’s a long list of what I personally would like to see in the future of Live. A lot of these features I want to see are for the mobile side of Live but there are other ideas as well.

1) Video Chat over Live between 360 and Vista. I know UNO is coming to Vista and will be playable between the two platforms. What hasn’t been announced is if Video Chat will be available for Windows Vista players. Simply plug in the Xbox Live Vision camera to your Vista PC and share the exact same experience as the 360. Also, Video messages would be super cool.

2) A lot more integration with other Live services such as Live Spaces and Live Messenger. Blogging from your Xbox would be interesting!

3) Video and voice chat in the 360 dashboard with multiple people (at least 8 for voice, 4 for video).

4) Receive voice and video messages from your mobile phone in addition to text messages. Sending voice and video from the phone would be nice too!

5) One feature talked about for Live Anywhere is being able to play games such as Zuma on your phone. Since it’s the user’s same account over all platforms, let’s say that if one were to purchase Zuma on Xbox 360, how about giving the user access to the game on ALL their supported devices for no extra cost? Also, how about the achievements be linked together? For example, unlocking an achievement on the cell phone version will also unlock it for the Vista and 360 versions?

6) Change account settings such as gamer picture, motto, zone, and all that cool info from your mobile phone.

7) Show online status if a user is on their mobile phone. From what I’ve seen, friends will appear as on 360 or Vista PC. How about a mobile icon?

Send friend requests via mobile phone blue tooth or similar technology. Maybe if there’s no reception around, people can still send ‘nearby’ people friend requests. Similar to the functions the Zune has with detecting nearby users.

9) Purchase Microsoft Points on your mobile phone. Buy some points wirelessly and come home to use them on your 360. Pointless? Maybe, but it would sure be a cool feature! A smaller version of the marketplace on the phone would be sweet to for Arcade games, themes, gamer pictures, and even videos! Anything purchased on the mobile would be available on the other platforms too.

10) Game related ring tones downloaded via Live to mobile phone.

11) A way to download audio files from the marketplace which would be great for files such as podcasts!

12) Increase friend list from 100 maximum friends. Even 125 would be nice!

13) Just a few hardware things for 360. Bigger hard drives are a must, especially since digital distribution is the wave of the future. Also, a small QWERTY keyboard that plugs into the bottom of the controller for quick messaging, be it an MMOG, text messages, blogging, etc. I’ve seen rumors of such an accessory but nothing official.

Thanks for taking the time and listening to the community!

LARGER HDD

How about:

* web browser / RSS reader

* real-time messenger integration

* Search for friends by location/interest/etc

* Ability to view Live spaces via the 360 (linked to friends via dash)

* As I said on the official forums: Tetris would rule

* Stronger group/clan feeling in dashboard – affiliation

* Give space on XBOX subdomain website for officially sanctioned clans (implement forum/space there)

* Greater online identity – a version of the weemee – an online avatar with customisation?

* NEWS page – keep us up to date dude, we’re all desperate to know what goes on in MS towers, and just throwing out the occasional game isn’t enough – we want updates, or blogging, let us know you’re all there.

Furthermore, you guys surely own Wes Cherry’s solitaire code, not to mention minesweeper, etc? You know, the Microsoft Windows 95 games – why not add them as fully-featured freebies to the dash – get a bit of retro microsoft in there….

Thanks for the work so far though guys, just look to the other available MS products, and see why they’re so useable.

A clan blade would be wonderful with support for various ranks in the clan from member, staff and clan leader / overlord. (should be able to be defined).

Clan chat thats basically a lobby that can have a number of members talking at once.. like cod 2 lobby or halo 2.

Also message options for sending to the clan members only.

Would be nice if support for clan matches from friendly match to tournament so that staff and overlords could inform members of.

Something special would be a match opt-in / Opt-out system.

Say you see details on a upcoming match and you press A button and it will show you as signed up for that game, press A again and you would be removed.

Thanks for reading, clan support is very small on the 360

Well, this is certainly exciting. I would like to suggest a few things I have really been wanting on xbox live for awhile now.

- A bigger friends list, its gets annoying having to constantly kick and add new people

- A chat confrence of sorts, kind of like private chat or video chat but with multiple people at the same time. Similar to the one included in the dash board on the original xbox.

- Some kind of clan support. I know for a fact that several original xbox games had this (Halo 2, Rainbow Six, ect.), but for some reason there have been no games with clan support so far on the xbox 360 (well except chrome hounds, but that doesn’t count). I don’t mean some stupid website, I mean actually having and option in the game to form a group of players under a single clan name (something similar to Halo 2′s system).

@ eight:

You can use Guest sign on for GoW…

Go all the way to the screen where you have:

Join a Quick Match

Find a Custom Match

Host a Match

Etc.

at the bottom you should see (Y) Guest Sign In.

Have the person on the second controller press Y, scroll all the way to the bottom of the user list and select "Guest".

*The only downside to guest mode is no headset ability…. Which is kind of a downer…

But GoW does have Guest ability. Once you have the second player sign in as a guest, you can quit games, and they will stay signed in as YourGamerTag(1) if you play another game.

Thanks,

StreetChariot

-Wireless keyboard for the XBL dashboard only. it’s annoying having to text with a controller.

-More VGA resolution support. 1280×728 on 1440×900 and 1650×1080 just isn’t cutting it on LCD’s.

-Better Zune integration, navigating folders and etc. is horrid.

-A better wireless headset. It needs a revision with less voice quality issues and better battery life.

-More than 100 friends?

-Group friends in the friends list alphabetically by game. Though when playing a game, make others playing the same game as you on top. I was so used to this in Halo 2.

-Custom grouping of friends, ex. certain people on one list, certain people on another. One person being on multiple lists possible.

-Quicker response time of the Dashboard, it’s so slow. On Halo 2 on my original xbox it was quick to send a person an invite, less than 5 seconds. Now it takes about 10.

-Bigger storage device of some sort. With IPTV coming out later this year, more space is in need due to the DVR situation. Unless you host the recorded material on servers which would be even more costly…

-More people in a private chat. Come on, I think the limit of people should be at least 4, not 2.

-More GUI customization of the dashboard.

-Increasing the number of options for your online status flag to things like "Waiting for Invite" or "Room Full".

-Faster dashboard response, I can’t stress that one enough, it’s been slow since version 2.0.1888. (Yes, the very first public release of it.)

-Show what disc is in the xbox in the dashboard, sometimes i forget if i was playing Gears last night or Halo before playing Hexic and going to bed.

-More options for gamer pictures, seriously. Like you pay 100 MS points for a custom one or something so picture packs aren’t redundant and people end up getting the image on their comp for free; then transfer it via a flash drive so XBL doesn’t lose money since it’s pointless to pay more for the single picture.

If you want to improve you need to think of something that’s not happening right now that consumers would want to do with more ease.

I think a good addition would be to be able to send/share songs and files from 360 to 360 across LIVE.  Let us talk to 4 people max in private chats and let them all communicate to each other.  Friends lists NEED to be bigger.

Lastly when you have an artist of a month make one for each genre.  Not just some b.s music Microsoft developers thinks is good.  There should be probably a top 5 artists and one that Microsoft recommends highly of the others.

In order of importance to me.

1. Let me play mp3’s from an external hard drive connected through the USB.

2. Add support for Fast Forward and Rewind when listing to a CD or other media.  This seems so basic am I just missing this.  Someone let me know if I am wrong although I am sure you will.

3. Give it the ability to stream DivX, MPEG, Xvid and WMV formats, in real-time.  I know I can buy Blaze’s Xploder Media Center but I shouldn’t need to.

4. Add clan support. Seems like you could add an icon next to the friends list or something.  Then you should be able to manage this list from xbox.com but maybe that’s asking to much.

Thanks keep up the good work.

First Let me just say I love Xbox 360 and Xbox Live and all the work you guys have done.

Xbox 360:

1. A bigger hard drive would be nice 60 or 100gb. Also there needs to be a way to let you transfer all you stuff from you hard to the new hard drive whether that be thru stores or online locker.

2. The battery life for your wireless controllers and mics should be a percent not bar. you know like 100%- 20%.

3.A new dashboard blade I like to call “360 degrees of Xbox” What happens is the xbox 360 or xbox live reads you friends and lets say you put in Major Nelson into this search bar and it connects you to Major Nelson by way of your Friends or your Friends, Friends and it shows you like a movie or some type of game to show you how many people it took to connect you to Major Nelson.

Xbox Live

4. A Unified Party and Clan System.

5. A Unified Tournament System. (Tournaments each month for online games.) I.E. 2ksports online leagues or XSN Sports if you will. Yes I was apart of that. LOL

5.I for one thinks that Xbox Live needs to move into a new tier. There should be 3 Tiers but all can play Multiplayer.

a. Tier One: Free Peer 2 Peer Gaming.

b. Tier Two: 29.99 Dedicated Servers but you have to watch commericals before you multiplayer game starts.

C. Tier Three: 49.99 Dedicated Servers no ads and can it gamer points according to you gamer score or a free Xbox Arcade Game.Use of the Tournament System. You get First Ballat Access to Beta’s 49.99 or even 59.99 a year should be enough to get me in.

Xbox.com

1. I just think that with all the shows and community partys there should be some east coast love some of the time and I don’t just mean New York City there is Philadelphia, NJ, SC, GA etc.

I have one simple suggestion; please fix the clock settings on the 360 dashboard so that us Western Australians can choose Daylight Savings.

Thank you.

I would like to see a quicker dashboard. Like when you hit the guide button, it instantly brings up the side panel unlike currently, where when you press it, you have to wait several seconds for it to fully load. It gets really annoying because sometimes you hit it by accident and you get delayed from your online game and that gives your enemy a chance to frag you.

- I’m loving the idea of age groups on Live.  I’m well aware that there are some mature 13 year olds but I could really live without the immature ones.  Especially once Halo 3 comes out.

- Group chat as mentoined a million times before me.

- More free gamer pics.

- Better video support!  No more .WMV exclusivity would make my day.  Although I realize the sticky legal ramifications, I’m sick of encoding everything multiple times over just to watch it on my Xbox.  If you guys want this to be an entertaiment hub you have to break out of your shell a bit.

- More intuitive music playback.  When I’m done with a playlist, I don’t want to go all the way back to the menu to select more.  Maybe some more visualizations too

But all in all, I love my 360.  Keep it up!

I’d like an option to temporarily disabled floater messages. I’ve been close to dying a couple of times because "Buddy came online" was hovering over bullets or similar.

I’d like the 360 to be able to access samba shares, to play any video format I throw at it (the avcodec library is a decent candidate for getting support for a whole lot essentially for free and it’s LGPL so you can use it).

I’d like a tabbed browser with enough standards support to allow me to use something like meebo.com – which makes an IM client tie-in unnecessary. At the same time some usb mouse support to supplement the already present keyboard support would be nice. Only for web and such though – not for games.

I’d like an option to purchase Xbox Live 3/12 months subscription using Microsoft points and whenever they time out my subscription should revert to silver instead of charging my credit card (as with the subscription cards from retailers).

I’d like the option to disable all the animation in the interface – especially the sliding that doesn’t look smooth anyway – particularly when a game is playing and the actual sliding can take ages (for instance the menu you get when pressing the Xbox-button).

General optimizations in the interface. This is a 3+ GHz box there should be *no* waiting anywhere.

Easier access to "active downloads". Preferably on the first level of the little Xbox-button menu. Also it should not time out just because the controller shuts off unless someone grabs a different controller and starts inputting stuff.

Make it possible to quit a Live subscription right from the dashboard instead of having to call Microsoft.

Clean up menus and make it possible to view all recent added items to Xbox Live Marketplace across categories so you don’t have to check every single one. Alternatively make an RSS screensaver with the latest news from Xbox Live marketplace and general 360 news instead of the silly little box with hints and releases.

Allow the 360 to idle in the dashboard at the same fan speed as during DVD playback. Realistically it must be possible.

Allow us to remove games we no longer want listed if we don’t own them (games with 0 gamer points).

Allow for longer queues when downloading from Xbox Live Marketplace.

Add proper 1920*1200 resolution and let the 360 add borders if the hardware is capable of it (not a big jump from 1080p).

Generally: Make sure that every single game that is released looks as it should on a 4:3 screen. It’s a ridiculously high amount that don’t.

That’s all I can think of right now.

Sorry for any repeats, I didn’t read through em all.

- Pop-Up notifications options:

   – Placement

   – Info

   – Time

   – Turn off during DVD playback

- More Friends List Options:

   – Groups, Send invites to Groups of friends

   – Set hotkeys for message, invite, join match

- Marketplace

   – Quicker, Easier Navigation

   – "New Today" or "New this Week" on main menu

   – Featured items is kind of random

   – Less repeats and multiple paths to same content

   – [as always] Pic and Theme previews

   –  More file details

- Various Dashboard

   – Font color/size choices

   – Blade color choices for no theme

I also want a good matchmaking service and clan support. Halo 2 has this immersive online component, and it’s last gen. I know that it can be done. Also 3 way/4 way private chat would be nice. Also I believe that cheaper rental prices on the movies will be a great thing. I currently don’t buy any because they’re too expensive for a 1 viewing rental…

Just thought of it I’ve always wanted a game to be where PC gamers control console gamers.  I know it was mentioned earlier and it seems like a great idea.  Why make Console and PC gamers go against each other a way better idea would be to have PC gamers give us way points on where to go.

All you have to do is take your Flagship Franchise (Halo, Gears of War or 3rd party i.e GRAW) and combine it with an RTS system (Halo Wars or C&C).  It would rake in tons…

I’d like to see a touch pad peripheral that can be used for games that have maps to direct cpu, co-op or multi-player teammates where to go or where an attack is coming from. It would supplement the game-pad. It would also be helpful in planning a mission, for setting way points or things like cross-com views. I would also like to see the voice chat enabled for more than one person.

I would say a bigger Friends List because people who have played and have had live for a while have a lot of friends.

Ah, there’s so many, so I’ll just list a few:

-Group chat…of course.

-Unified clan system.

-Internet Explorer Web browser accessible from the dash.

-Ability to stream more video file types (other than WMV) from Windows XP PCs.

-Dashboard optimization (lessen load times, etc.)

-Fix dashboard ads (See this thread: http://forums.xbox.com/1875409/ShowPost.aspx_

-Better Zune integration

There’s one old pc-game I would to see on Live Arcade: Jones in the Fast Lane. Here’s some info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_in_the_Fast_Lane.

I’m sure that would be a huge hit. At least an improved version of it. Hopefully Sierra would become excited about this idea now that they have some experience on making Live games.

A lot more Zune integration.  I want to be able to log onto any Wi-Fi hotspot and check my friends list/read messages from my Zune.

Eventually be able to seamlessly play any game single player or multiplayer – especially co-operative play seamlessly.  Here is an example:  You start hosting a game, and make the session public to other gamers, and will start out the game as if single player – maybe with bots, maybe not – think Gears of War currently.  Then someone joins in and suddenly either a second character jumps into the action, or one of hte ai bots becomes a human player.  You play.  When other player(s) are done and drop out, seamlessly make that character gracefully leave without interrupting play, or make that character a ai bot again.

Make our gamertags have a bit more beef to it.  I woudl want to store my save games online so that i can hop in anywhere in xbox live and be able to play my games, without having to fuss with profiles, memory cards.. basically make my gamertag really free roaming.

I want to access marketplace from my phone, zune, pc and 360.  I want to be able to buy music on my 360 and sync it up to my zune wirelessly.  I want to be able to download demos and trails to my pc then transfer them over to my 360.  I want to be able to transfer movies and tv shows to my pc/zune/phone from my 360 and vice versa.  I also want to pay to not see adds.  If I’m paying for a gold membership I shouldn’t have to see adds at all.  

another idea that I saw mentioned on another post was the ability to stream media formats to the 360.

mpeg formats would be really nice. h.264.

How about the ability to fast-forward through songs on my 360? Would be kinda nice for those 1 1/2 hour long podcasts….

I’m sure it is in development, but Live for the PC will really need to be an always online thing, not just when online in a game.

How about a frickin party system in gears?

Thanks for asking our thoughts!  I appreciate your thoughtfulness to poll your community.

1.  Digital Game Distribution – As mentioned earlier, there are many hurdles here but 5 years down the road, I don’t want to go to my Gamestop to buy a game.

2.  On-line Game rental – This goes hand in hand with #1.  The right solution could but the game rental companies out of business and provide a nice function for the gamers.

3.  Adding Categories to the friends list for better organization.

4.  MSN Messenger tie-in for game invites and other Live notifications (we had this before – please give it back!)

5.  Age based Gamer Zone(s) – Most (not all) adult gamers are tired of playing with kids and I think vice versa.

6.  Ability to send and receive text messages and view friend information across cell phone, zune, computer, or 360.  

7.  Access to all game related score boards from xbox.com

8.  Extend email services somehow the current xbox profile.  For example, there are many times where I have to ask a friend what is your email so I can send you more information.

9.  While I have mixed feelings about this, I will say that some type of browser support makes sense.  As a gamer, you do sometimes have a need to view a FAQ or look-up something while in game (or in your living room).

10.  Unified Clan support across games.  I have a "clan" or a loose group of friends who routinuely play together and if this grouping (i.e. game matchmaking, stats tracking, etc) could be built into the service it would be nice.

11.  Expanding your dashboard to become "My Dashboard".  From here you can define rss feeds and other sites of interest where you will get the latest info when you logon.

12.  Spectator mode.  I think this is GREAT feature.  If you could quickly view or watch what a friend is doing (or a leader is doing) that is very cool.

13.  Expanding Group chat capabilities

Hopefully this helps.  Keep up the good work!

Track time/usage statistics!  I would love to see xbox live track how long you’ve played each game, and post it alongside the achievements.  I’m very curious how long people have taken to get some achievements, or how much time they’ve put into multiplayer.

This would be so easy to do, only store one number per game, and can be independent of the code on the game disc!  Also, be sure the timer stops when the xbox is idle.

Man I would LOVE this feature =)

Here’s a couple off the top…

Easier way to sign on while appearing offline – as opposed to the being on for a second, then disappearing.

Easier way to mute obnoxious people.  Sometimes it takes too long to click thru to their card and find the mute option.  Heck, sometimes it’s not even the right person!  

A catch all "New release" area on Marketplace.  Yeah, I know it’ll never happen, but please?

You know on MSN you can see what your listning to? Why not add the option to see what your PLAYING, either on Xbox or Windows Live, with your associated gamertag.

Drop in a fully functional "XBOX 360" enhanced version of Internet Explorer.

Also, it would be great if there was subscription based model to the video marketplace (ie. flat rate for X number of movies per mth, or even monthly free downloads for gold members)…works for Netflix.

Group voice chat:  Two are a couple, three or more are a crowd.  It’s nice to chat one-on-one with a loved one, but what about times when you want to chat with your friends?  Having to switch back and forth between channels gets old and what if you want to say something to two or more friends at once?  Group voice chat solves that problem by allowing more than 2 people to chat at once.  

Party system:  Be able to get a group of friends and find games online that everyone can get into.  True-ranking kills any idea of being able to play with friends online (with obvious reasons being cheating and boosting), but what if you really understand your friends and can anticipate their moves?  Makes you question whether you can really trust your teammate to have your back.  

Universal clan system:  If we can’t get a party system like Halo or Saints Row, could we at least have some sort of universal clan option?  

Video chat outside of video chat:  Video chat is cool, but it would be even better if we could video chat outside of video chat.  Currently, you can only video chat with someone and play around with some effects.  It would be much cooler if you could possibly point the Vision Cam at your TV and your friends could see what you’re playing as you’re playing?  It would also allow people to help other people out by guiding them as they play.  Then again, sometimes it would just be cool to videochat while you’re playing Chess or Checkers or even Contra.

Simple. I want high definition tv with dvr capability, but I don’t want to buy a bundle.  I want to pay for channels a la carte, so that I don’t have to trudge through 150 channels for the 5 I watch.

I would also like to download movies on demand.

Just another thought.

Having the Dash become something more akin to the Live.com page.

Where you can have feeds/information based off items such as your email, your weather, your feeds, news, friends online (instead of notifications).

I know it’s probably a bit much to put on one screen… but a list with a window pane beside with the information and auto-scrolling around the list (until the user takes control) would be the idea.

Just an idea.  I’ll keep trying to come up with some more, but sharing that data between my pc, xbox, and windows mobile.

Also I’d love to see Live Maps come to Xbox, since you can do it on your PC/Mobile device.

It wouldn’t be such a use case though I guess, more something handy.

A Yellow pages/White pages would be awesome though – abundant on the PC and accessible through the phone, but it’d be something different for the console.

Additions to previous post.

I’d like to see a deal on points when you buy in bulk. I’d like the host of a live game to be able to stream music during the game. And I’d like to see the music from all the games that are released on Xbox and 360 available for sale on Marketplace.

There are a few features which would really make Live stand out from the competition.

1.) I would love to have a private voice chat with 2-3 friends. I find this to be the most troublesome part of Xbox Live. Since there isn’t a clan management tab, voice chats are the only way friends can organize games.

2.) Some sort of clan tab would really add to the overall Live experience. It would allow people to better keep track of their friends and arrange games without trouble.

3.) Users should be able to add comments about each individual friend in their list. It is sometimes difficult to remember people by their name, this would allow us to keep stronger ties with our friends.

The only thing i can think about right now is a Friends list expansion, including a seperate list for Clan members. This has been a hot topic for a very long time and it is known that there are more then plenty ppl asking for this.

"Dave said:"

"Start selling guest passes for live on the market place. Imagine I’m not a big muliplayer guy, but I would like tp play a game online with my buds today. Allow me to buy a day or a weekends worth of live access instead of having to buy the card."

Yes! Or free XBL weekends. Comeon, You have over millions of customers. I think you can affourd the weekends free. It would be great for when you have people over as mostly thats on weekends. I hate buying cards too!,and using 48 hr cards. Maybe for the weekends you can afford it to be free. Im Sure on that!

"wdwpsu said:  

I’d like an open source community in that I can develop a game or application and share it with my friends.  In turn, we can all enjoy this program together.  The strength of XBL is it’s open community now.  And, by making it more of a playground where everyone can participate together with no restrictions, the potential is limitless. "

Dude! Do a search for XNA.

There is only one feature that I ever really thought about, and some may consider it stupid but personally I’d love to be able to see and communicate with people on things like AIM, MSN, and ICQ through my 360, send invites, and all that kind of stuff.

I play with a tight group of friends over Live so anything you can do to help us get into games together   would be greatly appreciated.

1. Allow more than one friend to participate in a private voice chat. This is really useful when you’re gaming with friends but don’t want to listen to the random people you get paired up with.

2. Bring more of the matchmaking functionality to the Live platform. Instead of relying on each developer to create a matchmaking/party system, copy Bungie’s version on Halo 2/3 and integrate it into Live.

3. A sent messages folder would be nice. Sometimes I send a message and wish I could send the same one to another friend or see it again for myself at a later date (vision cam pictures especially).

4. Sending vision cam pictures to email addresses would be fun.

5. Picture-in-picture video chat while playing a game would be pretty slick, but challenging I’m sure.

Overall, I’m very pleased with the service. Thanks for making it so easy to play with my friends in other parts of the world. And thanks for asking for feedback.

Perf improvements. When I am watching a movie or playing a game the dashboard takes too long to come out and then a while longer to populate all the controls.

Faster switching between accounts. A couple of my friends have roommates that all use the same Xbox. Because of the amount of "click" and perf lags, see above, it can take ~45 seconds to switch to another profile.

Group private chat. I want to do this a lot, especially when I am organizing xbl events with my friends.

Messaging integration with Live Messenger. I want text and voice. I also don’t want to use the Live Messenger tabs to switch between buddy lists. Tabs make it clunky and they take up more of my precious screen real estate.

Require unique icons for achievements. I worked hard for them and hate to see the same lame icon. Enchanted Arms is an example of a game that does this.

Access to game specific leaderboards, such as Halo or GoW.

My ideas for Xbox 360 live:

1. Add a fast foward/rewind option to music. Movies and videos have this option, so why not music?

2. More detailed Marketplace content. Show pictures of items instead of having people go to xbox.com to find them. Pictures of the Weapons, Themes, Gamerpics, Maps, etc. before purchasing them would make more people eager to purchase them.

3. A party chat. It would be nice if I could talk with up to 6 people at once, like I did on Xbox 1 in the dashboard. The option would be even strong if you could have everyone doing different things, just like a private chat.

4. Speed increase for the Guide blade. The Guide blade is too slow. Sometimes invites are not followed correctly.

5. Xbox 360 Live on original Xbox games. Allow the guide blade to be accessed during the old games from the original Xbox. When your playing something non-live, like Halo, it will say that your online in "Xbox game." This will allow people to truly feel they have their friends list everywhere. The other thing it would allow is music on old games at anytime they want. For games, like Halo 2, that are online enabled, make it where you log out of Xbox 360 live while loggin into Original Xbox Live. Once logged into original Xbox live, make it not possible to log into Xbox 360 Live, but allow custom tracks to be accessable.

I think that a Halo 2 style party system should be a requirement for all multiplayer games. GoW is a great game, but how much better would it be with a sweet party system?

I have no thoughts on the Live service – I’m basically a game idea guy. I have some ideas on THAT front:

1. Cribbage and Bridge. Especially disheartening is the removal of Cribbage on Zone. I think Cribbage and Bridge would get more traffic than UNO.

2. I know you don’t like extended amounts of time in an XBLA game, but I think you ought to start implementing ranked and unranked card tournaments.

3. You’re not hyping Settlers of Catan enough. A lot of people I’ve found online thinking Catan is a system seller.

4. You should really work out a way to purchase the rights to Ticket to Ride, which would also be another system seller.

First, I’d like to say thank you for listening to people. I work on the X360 for a living as a game tester, and also own one at home, and the idea that people like me can affect the Xbox Live is beyond what I’d expected.

Anyway, my suggestion is this: Xbox Live forums on the actual system, for each game. This would allow for more multiplayer coordination, clan recruitment, and other Xbox Live functions that require a PC to use, that are sometimes less than legit. What better way to bring more people together (and allow for more trash talking…) than forums? They exist everywhere already, but putting them on the 360 itself would make it into a more effective tool for players to socialize on. Because of already built in functions, such as voice/video chat and friends lists, there would almost be no need to ever return to the ol’PC for communication.

Thank you again for your consideration. I’m happy to be a part of the Xbox Live community.

Some of the things I would like would include the ability to check on active downloads, memory card or hard drive space, and how many MS points you have online, and to have demos for upcoming XBLA games and trailers of both upcoming and available XBLA or at least have montages more often.

Hmm since my huge comment didnt go through…

For those saying Streaming Radio – it already works.

http://www.madprops.org/cs/blogs/crucible/archive/2006/10/17/Streaming-Radio-to-your-Xbox-360.aspx

You can’t do it with Windows Media Player, but you can with Twonky or TVersity or similar.

1. MSN on xbox 360

I totally agree that a universal clan system would be amazing..hell if the entire service would be built to emulate halo 2′s wonderful matchmaking, that would be tops.

Ok this 360 NEEDS to be 100% fully integrated with Microsoft Home Media Server shown at CES and be able to offload demos, saves, etc. to it.  This is more important than and eliminates the need for a larger hard drive.  That way, we can have access to media, stream media, store media in a way that’s integrated with sharing with PCs etc.  It needs to be seemless and doesn’t require some laborous login each time.  It should be synced once and that’s it.  This is the only true solution to making the 360 an entertainment hub that breaks free from storage constraints.  The current method of using media player and XP MCE is just plain bad.  

I think it would be great to be able to share files with other gamers – an example of what I’m thinking about is being able to share updated rosters for games or profiles for the player models you may have built with in a game (e.g. Tiger Woods or Rainbow 6: Vegas.)

I’d also love to see Xbox Live add internet functionality, the ability to download podcasts and as a pie in the sky sort of ask – it would great to be able to access satellite radio via my 360.  Now I know it’s not going to have the full satellite capability but both XM and Sirius now stream online – it would great to be able to stream this stuff via my 360 – especially if I could do it while playing a game.

man i think with all the crazy ideas people are putting out there, i think save up all the ideas and put them into a bank and make the 3rd xbox a computer

Two items are needed to make Xbox Live the best it can be:  Clan System, and Universal Party System

The Clan system should have features that allow significant management features, like user definable ranks and awards (clan achievements).

The party system should allow players to group together.  When the party leader enters a game, it should simply send an automatic invite to everyone associated with that party.  This way, the party system can operate independently of game code.

Of course, the clan system should have ways to interact with parties.  It should be easy to create a party from the online members of a clan.

*I want to listen to voice messages on the xbox live website.

*All multiplayer games must have the Halo 2 party system mandatory.

*Co-op should be high encouraged with a Gears of War type drop in whenever. Lost Planet would’ve been so much better with co-op.

*The Dashboard needs to be optimized. The blades are so sluggish. It’s a closed system for gods sake! This thing should be finely tuned to near perfection.

1. More Retro arcade titles. i love them. keep them coming.

2. XBLA Wednesdays makes me anticipate every wednesday. (a schedule would be nice but i understand.i also like a surprise every week. i’m neutral)

3. Lunar. from the Sega CD. i loved this game. forgo the  dinky 50MB XBLA size limit and bring me a game so i don’t have to break out the SegaCD

4. Tetris & Super Bust a move. My Girl loves this game and keeps asking me why it’s not on the marketplace.

5. More HD Movies. i love HD movies. 720p. 480p doesn’t interest me.

6.  Online leaderboards. i would absolutely *LOVE* to be able to see my friends leaderboards online, instead of having to boot the 360 up. and i’m talking about the score of the game, not the achievements.

7. i like getting some gamerpics with my games. themes would be cool too.

8. allow local co-op achievements. my Girl and i love playing games together. and she likes getting achievements, but most games require "Live" games.

9. keep the demos coming. they’ve sold me on a few games i wouldn’t normally have considered buying.

10. Achievements keep me playing. i don’t think MS would abandon achievements, but i’m just saying.

11. Have a Friend "tagging/priority" system. Example: i have 67 friends. 4 of them from outside Live. i like to keep up on what they’ve been doing and their score, and it’s kind of tedious to search for them in a large group.

in closing, i love my 360. i love live. i love XBLA games. my wii is gathering dust. i don’t own a PS3. nothing holds my interest like my 360 does. keep up the good work.

There are some absolutely AWESOME ideas in this thread. I am definitely in support of a lot of the issues of integrating Live into Windows Live Messenger, and the transparent/translucent blade, I also like some of the ideas of a more wide-spread usage of the Vision camera.

I think a few of the biggest issues addressed in this that I say need "fixing", or more like "implementation", are the party and clan systems. A singular unified clan really encompasses the whole theme of Xbox Live. Playing together. If I keep getting stuck with a team full of quitters, or I keep getting paired up with "modders" or "Standby-ers" or those who continually abuse the system on Xbox live.

Myself, now that there’s this integration with my cell phone and computer, I would like to be able to schedule a game with someone later on in the day. Like, I call my buddy up only to find out that he’s at work (though, if that GPS feature was integrated…) so I set up a timed game invite and let him know via another message. Both of us get a game invite message on our Live enabled phones and converge on the Dashboard’s party system then we pop in our games and roll on for hours into the night.

Also, I currently stray from MSN spaces because, personally, there’s nothing on there that the other social networking sites don’t do better. However, if that Individual device manager was integrated into that site, that alone would give me more reason to join, if there was some sort way for all my Live friends to be instantly added, and enable me to search existing friends (maybe even ones on other social networking sites?) for Live tags, would be amazing.

Here are a few features I would love to see added.

1) Ability to store or b/u content to an external hard drive. A few episodes of HD TV content and the hard drive is stuffed. I realize it can be downloaded again, but why wait to download again when you can simply store it and access it at a moments notice.

2) Since you can stream music from a connected PC, why not be able to create and save a playlist on the 360 that referencees external music? If the plalist is being played and an external song is missing, simply skip it and play the next song on the list.

3) Would be nice to organize or group friends into folders or sub-categories.

4) Better grouping/organization of gamer pics. As it is now, they are all lumped into a single, massive list. After some time it’s difficult, if not impossible to tell where the pics came from, or what game/show they pertain to.

Xbox Live is a pretty good feature. But it has its flaws.

It cost 88 SGD <- this is a cost of a full import game, yes u can justify this as a Year’s worth of online play. BUT since the matches are on the host’s machine, what does M$ have to support?

Either

1) Reduce the cost for goodness sake (make it free, u will trash the PS3 and Wii if it’s free).

2) Or if u have DEDICATED servers then the pain of paying for the service wont be so great.

88 SGD for a years worth of lag is NOT FUN!

Plus could u please send more 12 month subscription cards to Singapore please? Alot of us DO NOT want to pay via credit card.

And M$ is evil it will keep dedicating the amount till U CALL M$ support to cancel it.

"Thrillhouse6 said:

I’d also love to see Xbox Live add internet functionality, the ability to download podcasts and as a pie in the sky sort of ask – it would great to be able to access satellite radio via my 360."

Dude, I’ve posted a couple of times now about streaming radio (does anyone read anyone elses comments? Show of hands! )

But yeah you can do it, search for my name.

Secondly, as far as podcasts goes, you can always download the mp3 and play it as audio over Windows Media Player media sharing.

I don’t know if it was suggested before(I ain’t reading pages upon pages of comments), but I believe you should  have the option of viewing how many times a player has been complained about and what for.

Or, better yet, a better banning system so that people will really FEAR the banhammer.

Fix the music playback (MP3/CD) as when I stream it from my PC or play it off the 360 HDD it only plays through the front 2 speakers.

Not really a "Live" function, but as long as we’re talking about additions…

The ability to create a Clan from the Dashboard and persist ala the Gamertag. [No need to create a new clan for each game that supports clans]

I would like to see a full online distribution model for full retail games over xbox live.

With the ability to buy or rent games and every game should have a free playable demo

I would like to see the ability to have private chat with more than one person at a time as well as the ability to send a message (voice or text) to multiple people at once instead of having to send the message each time. Those two things are pretty important in my opinion.

Not as important but would be nice is the ability to save a couple frequently used messages that you could quickly send without having to type them out.

I can download movies and download Arcade game… now I want to buy games online, instead of having to go to the store.

I want the ability to put notes to my friends, so I remember who they are.  Ex.  If a friend had a name 123XBOX, I would like to add a note next to his gamertag as John Doe.

Allow people to put their country flag somewhere in their avatar.

xblive should be a custom portal for gaming sites/newsgroups/ect. around the web.

Internet server that would be realy cool, HDMI, Group Chat, Unlimited friends list members, cheaper items on marketplace for gold members, Larger hardrive, being able to rent and buy games on xbox live via down load(would also require larger hardrive)more USB ports, more gamer score for games over 1000.

Thats about it guys will post as more ideas spring into my head.

Slayer of gods3

I think it would be cool if you could access a game guide while playing a game.  I think this could be done in one of two ways.  First, a purchase for a small fee, like maybe $5 for silver members and free for gold in order to try and get more Live subscribers.  When you purchase this guide, you would be able to access it by hitting the 360 button on the fly and be able to view it as the game is paused.  The second, or better yet, would be a web browser that you could flip to live while in game to access a site like IGN or Gamestop.  I think the first would be easier to implement due to system resources and being a somewhat better business model, but the web browser would be really sweet!

Will anyone even see this way down here?

I’d like an option for an opt-in mailing list for marketplace content. Or even just an opt-in message service via live.

Probably have to have several for categories, like demos, arcade, ad-on content, etc.

Then when something is added to the marketplace in a category you want to know about, it sends you a message.  Maybe even just once a week in digest format.

I know if I was a content creator putting stuff up for the marketplace, I’d want all the help I could get in steering people to find it.

WEB BROWSER – Absolutely necessary to compete with PS3 and Wii.

Ability to organize friends, have a larger number of friends, and ability to send messages/invites to whole friend groups.  In addition to the above, the ability to re-name or "Nickname" a person’s gamertag to something easier to remember would be helpful. (IE "MyNameIsHardToRemember" can be nicknamed "SomePerson", and be displayed as this name) You can currently do this in chat programs such as Trillian and it is very helpful.

A news page that contains updates on critical patches and add-ons to games, as well as more information on new or up-coming products and features on XBL.

Ability to share game files such as replays or save files (assuming game supports these features).

That’s it.

THESE SHOULD BE THE #1 PRIORITY….

JOIN ZUNE MARKETPLACE AND XBOX MARKETPLACE, if i buy videos let me download them to my zune as well… if i own a tv show let me put it on my zune, if i’ve purchased a song let me access it on my 360 via the marketplace, that way if i’ve got a zunepass i can just stream play a crapload of music from my 360!

Come on Microsoft you run 2 Wicked marketplaces why have them seperate????? Join the 360 and the Zune fully people!!!!

I would like Live Messenger to inform me when a friend goes online on his xbox. Voice etc functions on the PC to be able to speak to friends on xbox live. Overall a better integration with the PC.

If you mute someone it should automatically bring up a complaint form after the game is over to remind you to file one.

Since we’re talking about big ideas…

So far, Xbox live has done a great job of fostering community based on the idea of individual identity.  The gamercard, the gamerscore, the TrueSkill, the Rep, etc.  all do a great job of establishing your identity.

Now I’d like to see Xbox live promote the idea of an actual society built on lots of little communities interacting with each other.  The first step, would be to have bona-fide group support.  That is, for players to be able to form official groups on Xbox live, and to have those groups recognized no matter what game you play.

The best way to promote society based around a competitive enterprise (gaming), is to allow the groups to compete with each other in an official capacity.  This means any team game must recognize the official groups and allow them to compete against one another as discrete units, rather than collections of individual players.  So that would be the second step.

The third step would be to allow events.  A events can be anything from tournaments, to simple pick up games, to large scale leagues.  Someone would be able to administer said events, and invite groups or individual players (depending on whether the game was team-based or individual), and the system would keep track of the results of the events, including scores, standings, stats, and so on.

Finally, there’s no point having large scale events, if no one is around to see them happen.  That means, every single game must support some sort of spectator mode.  This should be part of the specification for Xbox live support, just like voice.

Having said that, I’m happy with Xbox live as it is.  I think it’s great that you are soliciting ideas from the community, though.

I would like it if one could scroll down a list by going up instead. For example if you want to reach a demo that is 12th on the list instead of having to scroll down the entire list, you could just go up once then that would leave you at the last item on the list which would be 12th. this could make scrolling a lot quicker and easier.

XBOX LIVE.

1.  Group chat from dashboard.

2.  Group your friends.  There are some people that regardless of their gametag I would like at the top of the list.

3.  Turn off "x player is is online" notifications separately from the other notifications.

4.  If possible can XBL enforce basic rules for lobbies on online games:

   1.  Host should always be able to control who’s on which team.

   2.  Host should always be able to kick unruley players.

   3.  All games should have party system,  and maintain the hosts ability to move teams or parties.

   4.  Lobbies should never ever get locked where people on either team cannot switch (UBISOFT I MEAN YOU).

   5.  If you are gonna make games that require teamwork aka Gears of War, RB6, etc.  Either support clans, or joining a friends ranked lobby.

   6.  There should never ever be a game released that has a bug similar to the voice chat bug that gears and rainbow 6 had.  There is no possible way that during testing a bug like that wasn’t found. Especially when everyone online found it first day.

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned before, but how about streaming music from your 360 or NEXT-next-gen system on a phone.

KARAOKE LIVE!

Game Rankings

It would be nice to have some type of rating system for games that we have played.  You could put in a five star system like we have for the rep and just have it under the compare games section.

Better interface. That’s it. Take some cues from some of your own products like Vista, and Media Center, as well as others like Sony’s XMB or Apple’s OSX. Slicker, sleeker, and easier to navigate. The Blades were a nice jumping off point, but you’ve done little to evolve it. I understand there are memory footprint considerations, but I’d hate to be stuck with this terribly plain jane interface for 4 more years.

1)I think live should broaden the usage of voice chat.  Allow users on xbox 360 to have group chat, users from pc to be able to log onto live and also voice chat with xbox users in and out of games, and allow zune to log onto live and text message friends and even (if possible) to voice chat over wifi with friends on live.

If zune had the ability for voip that would be awesome.    Maybe even video chat from xbox to pc.

2) More integration between zune and xbox360.  Examples/wishes…PVR functions on xbox that can stream to zune or send to zune for on the go.  Wireless music sharing between xbox and zune.  Media streaming from xbox to web like slingbox for zune.  

3)Customizable webpage for xbox live acct…own background, ability to display whatever content you prefer, leaderboard content for specific games, ect all on your own custom page.  

4) Arcade games across all platforms with ability to chat and play together, including games for zune.  Maybe include ability to stream xbox arcade directly to zune for coop play a la NDS (or between 2 zunes)

I’ll throw my voice in for getting rid of the point system.  If something costs $9.99, let me be able to spent $9.99, instead of needing to bank points.

Some of this may be duplication, but I hope that makes the powers that be look harder at the idea.  :)

Media support needs to be more than just "home technologies."  I’m an IT professional and MCP, I have my own W2k3 Servers at home (one a DC/file server, another for Exchange) as a test environment.  I keep my music here,  as lossless FLAC audio.  I would actually PAY to be able to listen to that music library on my 360.  Currently, my only option is to (a) convert it all to WMA (lossless or otherwise) and then (b) keep an XP/Vista/MCE machine running with Media Player 11 to properly "share the library."  This is BS, there’s no reason the 360 shouldn’t be able to authenticate to a wide open read-only share and play open-source audio formats like FLAC.

The entire Gold subscription system needs to be reconsidered for multi-player households.  I have a gold account.  When my fiancee moves in with me, she will want to play my 360, but I don’t want her data (RPG saves and achievements, for instance?) mixed in with mine.  Yes, I can make her a separate (silver) account, but then she can’t play stuff online except as my guest, which then makes us stuck in unranked games.  I’d be fine with it if her account would be somehow tied to the console or my account, but I should not have to pay for TWO live gold memberships just for the luxury of splitting up our save games and statistics.  Some sort of "Live Family" account maybe, for an extra $15 a year would be acceptable to me – it would "marry" her tag to mine and she would be Gold, but have her own statistics and saves on the 360.  For households with several teenaged players this obviously wouldn’t work – they’d each want their own gold account to take over to friends’ houses, so MS still can make money there… but for older 20-30-somethings who are married, but like to play together, it makes sense.  Extra income for not much more load/cost on MS’s part (there won’t be duplicated downloads, since we’d share access to the same gold content…)

Clan/"friend group" support would be great.  Allow it to be added to the end of the gamertag and change with clan membership.  Clans CAN NOT be limited in size, but only allow a player to join one clan.  More info on Live profiles (that can be displayed on the 360, natch) such as "site affiliations" and things like that would be cool as well, to tell other players a bit about you without them having to get on a computer just to look it up.

While I’m thinking 360, you need to have notices stamped in big GREEN letters all over the box that players MUST have a functional UPnP router if they want Live to not suck.  I can’t count how many times games have been dropped when they are trying to start because whoever got picked to host doesn’t have a truly UPnP device and it craps out in the middle.  http://pfsense.org – supports UPnP and it’s FREE.

The ability to selectively delete messages from your Inbox at Xbox.com without having to specifically open the message.

A better inviting system. Allowing the gamer to have more people on their invite list than just the recently played people.

Also allowing RANKED TEAM INVITES.

Other than that the service is pretty good.

1. I guess it was mentions before but is there a way to dedicate some space on MS servers for each Xbox Live user for their saved games. I mean if I go over to my friend’s house, I want to be able to log in with my GamerTag and be able to access my saved games.

2. More Hotmail/Xbox intergration. Many people have Hotmail which is owned by MS!!! So why can’t I check my mail from the Xbox? I’m talking stripped down version. Just text at least and a way to protect Xbox people from email viruses.

3. Xbox.com video/voice chat. Enough Said

4. Conference video.voice chat.

I would like:

A larger HD like 100GB+

More Dash Board built in themes like carbon and default.

Share purchased content between my two 360′s.

Internet Explorer integrated into the dash.

Arcade downloads not restricted to 50MB.

Companies not to lock game content that should have been included with the purchase. I am sick of EA micro transactions. Capcom including an additional map if you purchases the lost planet collectors. A collectors edtion should have the making of, art etc… If this continues I am done with collector edtions and games that use micro transaction to unlock content on the disc. Dont get me wrong I will happily pay for good game expansions.

I would like to see a party system integrated everywhere. At the "dashboard" or main screen or whatever system they are using. I would like to see parties be a big thing with Live. I want to be able to get a hold of all my friends and say "everyone join the party" that way you can join online matches even easier and integrate the whole community experience even more.

LIVE ARCADE OVERHAUL (read)

The name “Xbox Live Arcade” carries two connotations which it currently, in my estimation, fails to meet. “Live” and “arcade”. It does not feel “live” except whenever one goes through the trouble, per game, of setting up a multiplayer experience. All other online functions are stagnant and may as well be performed offline.

The “arcade” portion of the phrase is the component which hints at an exciting possibility. What if “Xbox Live Arcade” was, optionally, a first- or third-person rendering of a three-dimensional traditional arcade, wherein one can move about, check out Ms. Pac-Man or Time Pilot cabinets (being played, or in attract mode awaiting one’s interaction) or sofa areas hosting games of Uno, or what have you. One could interact with other Live Arcade avatars, challenge them to multiplayer games, watch them play while waiting turns. The background would be a din of arcade noise, replete with the sounds of Xbox Live Arcade offerings. Avatars could be custom-designed, perhaps including Live Vision-captured faces.

This is an opportunity which I think was missed, but which it is still possible, I think, to act upon. It would give Xbox Live Arcade, and perhaps the whole 360 experience, a very positive sense of social interactivity – something which is only possible within the specific confines of a given game, leaving the rest of the experience lifeless and dull.

I’d love to know what part of integration between the different platforms == bigger hard drive!

What i want to see from live is:

1: video marketplace (not only u.s.)for europe and the rest of the world.

2: iptv not limeted to the new, xbox 360 version 2. and that the people that already own an expensive console get a update or a cheap add-ons so they also can enjoy iptv (please give use these feayure all around the world..)

3. More options like download a full game to your hard drive, like Playstion3/sony does now, and i don’t mean arcade games..

4. A must have is, divx and xvid but everybody wants that!!!! and can it be in 16:9 or maybe 4:3..

5. multivideo chat not 1 on 1 but with 4 people at a time

6. multi chat like a confrence call, meeting up with more that 1 person at a time lets say 4.

7. Longer friendlist, no 99 but 199.

8. More voice message time..

9. A price drop will be nice for the people that can’t spend a lot of money but wanna join the community of the xbox 360..(console, 12 months pre-paid card, and the add-ons)

10: special account for a household with more that 2 persons.. that means 2 adults 1 or 2 kids and maybe more childeren..

Hi Major Nelson,

Here are some of things that both my father GamerTag: SNAKE 66 and I came up with to improve both the Xbox360 as well as XBOX LIVE (for the Third Time) Sorry things came into my mind as I read into the Forums of what others was also requesting.

What we’d like to see improved are:

1. Group Xbox360 Dashboard Chat System as well as Group Video. We shouldn’t have to all play UNO in order to see one another. (Suggesting that we higher the Suggested Minimum/Maximum of 2 People on the 360 Dashboard)

2. Less issues with Xbox360′s freezing (playing any 360 Game…receiving messages and then sudden freezes with require a hard REBOOT of System)

3. Being able to play other formats then WMV on your Xbox360 such as Divx, mpeg, etc…)

4. Futuristic Goal: Have Internet Browsing as well as Skype like Phone Calls made possibly through your Xbox360. (Fee Required). The Wii already has this Feature (Built-In Wifi as well as Internet Browsing.

5. Expand the GamerTag to include more information like your MySpace profile, At Least 2-3 Instant Messaging Handles, your Cell Phone # if you should ever feel that confortable with yourself and finally an Email Address that people from your Xbox Live Friends can reach you. (Should Not Be A Feature in Which Players outside of your Friends List Should See.)

6. The use of achievement pictures as gamerpics. I earned it, by unlocking the achievement so we should be able to use it. Seems like an easy thing to implement since the pictures are the same size and everything.

7. Save Downloaded Pictures and Themes that were purchased or given free from the Xbox360 Marketplace and be able to transfer them to your PC. As well as save pictures taken with your Xbox360 Vision Camera

8. Save Your Online Status (Online, Away, Busy and Offline) even when you shut-down or Reboot your Xbox360 and being to change it at will. (When you feel its Nessecary)

9. Show us what disc is in the tray, we saw this feature in a beta. (I hope this is not just for LIVE Anywhere)

10. Photo backgrounds: The ability to assign a different picture to each blade’s background. Currently assigning a picture to your background from a connected computer only applies one background to all blades.

11. Xbox 360 Guide Support for Original Xbox Games

12. Allow us the Ability to have multiple copies of one’s Xbox Live account on multiple units, but still implementing the fact since its realistic the fact that you just can’t sign into more than one Xbox360 at a time (like the original Xbox).

* A Xbox360 Representative, said that the reason why this feature was not implemented into the Xbox360 in its original release is because of the constant update of one’s GamerScore (Achievements received) But since it is possible of getting an update once you get on XBOX LIVE, I see having this feature actually implemented being Realistic

13. Allow Xbox Live Customers to hear their Voice Messages on Xbox.com as well as possibly reply back if they have a USB Headset or Analog headset.

14. As well as being able to view Snapshots of people sharing themself with the Xbox360 Vision Camera on the XBOX.com Website or does that infringe their Privacy?

* I’d say Yes with how Technology is Today but then again they sent me their picture to see on the XBOX360 so why not implement it on to the PC as well. Just lock the Image so that individual can’t make a HardCopy of It.

15. A LARGER Friends List. I have many Xbox Live friends which have become True Friends after having the Privledge to See them off Xbox Live and in person.

16. A Larger HardDrive since Xbox Live is soon to offer IPTV as well the Video Marketplace I find this to be a Vital Necessity while playing on XBOX LIVE.

Beside these 16 Suggestions, I think everyone involved in the Xbox Team has done a VERY GOOD Job! Again, Im sorry I had to re-write what I

This is a very simple request.

I would like a way to delete games installed to the hard drive. Games such as Final Fantasy XI install almost 10GB of information to the hard drive, and without the disk, you’re unable to delete the game’s files.

It would also be nice to be able to play games installed to the hard drive. On the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3, Final Fantasy XI is playable without the game disk in the machine. Perhaps there could be a launcher added to the marketplace that goes in the Xbox Live Arcade folder. That would be helpful.

Thanks.

personally i’d like to be able to get access to my xbox live contacts and messages from within live messenger, and possibly (though maybe not because the interface is a bit awkward and slow for multiple messages from different users) talk to msn contacts from my 360

If you are removed from someone’s friends list, I think you should recieve a message telling you who removed you.

I think 20 GB is not enough. Why not have some over the internet stroage like hotmail, which now has one GB of space, only bigger?

As weird as it seems, I would like my gamer pic to be any achievement icon that I have unlocked.  

What I would like to see is the ability to plug in a USB hard drive to house all of the HD content that I download through live. Face it, the 20GB drive just doesn’t cut it with HD content. Instead of forcing me to shell out more money for a bigger 360 drive, why not let me convert one of my existing USB drives?

i want a party system in every game similar to halo 2.

i want group voice and video chat.

i want better xbox live arcade games.

xbox live should be your one stop for all things entertainment.

Give an incentive to Live Gold subscribers, like 100 Microsoft Points per month, it would be better than a gold price cut, because users would "spend the discount"  with Microsoft and it’s partners, and the "subscribers renovation rate" would rise, as players need "just 200 more points to get that incredible live arcade game".

A problem with Gold subscription is that you can always PLAY MULTIPLAYER GAMES FOR FREE with your computer AND you already pay for internet provider (since most of multiplayer live games are hosted ON ANOTHER PLAYER’S XBOX, and not on a super expensive datacenter).

How bout a music/music videos database?  Or an expansion of the friends list.  And to make it easier we can make our own sub-categories for friends list (e.g  Friends – Close friends – Gears of wars players – R6V Players etc. )  Personal Chat with 3 or more people.  And of course the one and only ——Bigger HD

Gotham Tv in PGR 3 was awesome. Due stuff like that where everyone, not only people who own the game be able to see my skills. That would be really awesome.

remember which "Computer" each Profile is connected to.

My wife and I have seperate computers with WMP11 setup to share media. We also have our own profiles on the 360, but the 360 doesn’t remember which media share the profile used last time.  It’s very inconvienient to have to go to System/Computers/Windows-based PC/Disconnect, then go to Media/Music/Computer/Yes(pcsetup)/(wait for searching)/Select Computer before finally browsing music

- The ability to play arcade games while sitting in lobbies of other games. If I join a room and there’s 10 minutes left before the round ends I don’t want to sit and watch most of the time. It would also be cool to be able to pause the arcade game when the round is over and you are able to play. And the last part of this idea, the voice from the game you are waiting to play should work while playing the arcade game. This would only work while playing single player most likely but it would be awesome.

- I’m sick of getting bad feedback for no reason. I think there should be more incentive to give good feedback to people who actually play nicely instead of just ignoring them unless they do something bad. Maybe a community rep like a second set of stars that would rate the feedback you’re giving out.

- Game reviews should be something else that is added. The user should be able to review games with a number of stars or number out of 10. It would also be cool to partner with gamerankings or some other site to give a press review average, this second part would be obsolete with a web browser though.

- More people in the voice chat channel. It’s been said many times before but it really needs to be added.

- Better profile setup for users. I think you should be able to tell more about yourself. There should be a Bio section, Photo album (Vision Cam) and things like this. Building a better or more well known community would be cool I think.

I mainly wanted to bring the first two points up.

1. If clans can’t be supported, maybe the equivalent to Outlook’s distributions lists can be added to help manage the friends list. This can then be used to send messages out in bulk as well as handle group invites for games.

2. Filtering by age groups might be handy – it gets tiring having to listen to trash talking 12 year olds during games.

3. Rankings / feedback for Marketplace content could be used to not only help people decide on purchases but also introduce new methods for organising and listing the content. The forums on xbox.com are good for feedback but not everyone uses those as often as they might connect to live via their 360.

4. Trial versions of XBLA titles that have not been unlocked / paid for should not be listed amongst your achievements.

5. Would be nice to think that any XBLA titles I have paid for I can also download and play under Live for Vista.

6. Regular “community” media programs for download in video / audio formats such as Major Nelson Radio. Not just Xbox related either… perhaps local news updates? Items seperate from Video Marketplace / IPTV stuff.

+1 for video chat with Messenger users. Please, please, please!

Charge less for Adult Swim episodes.  

Adult Swim shows are only 11 minutes long, but Xbox Live charges as much for them as they charge for shows that are several times longer.  I just can’t justify paying $2 for an 11 minute long episode.

-Clan support at the Dashboard level. So you don’t have to join one for each game.

-More connectivity with the Zune. Like people have stated checking Friends list, and other things.

-Less Retro titles on XBLA, I’m really getting tired of Namco pooping all over the XBLA.

-A Higher quality headset that isn’t wireless, like Plantronics(sp) had with the the original one

-Maybe some sort of chat service where users can meet each other.

-Fix the rep system, too many players that drop have five stars.

Some sort of Windows app that you could view your friends list, respond to both text and voice msgs. Without having to open a webpage.

-more support for streaming video files off computers. Stop pushing your own format like Sony does.

Posted on Major’s page as well.

Make it mandatory for all online multiplayer games to have a party system so it is easy to play with friends in ranked games.

ALL I Want is 2-6+ people on Voice Chat!!

Clan Support, And Let us Change our Emails that are linked through our Xbox Live Accounts!

Thanks!

1)Universal Party Matchmaking, same for every game, Ranked or Unranked.

2)Voice Chat problems need to be fixed.

3)Ability to use user pictures for each blade.

4)Ability to use any picture for a gamercard pic.

5)A better media player when playing custom soundtrack.

6)Try dedicated servers.

7)Ability to watch any type of video file.

8)Media Center DVR capability.

9)Web browser.

10)Price fixing for marketplace content. Nintendo and Sony are doing it why not Microsoft?

11)More free content. Ala Gears Map Pack. Find some sponcers!

12)Maybe add a new blade "Community" this would be a MySpace type blade that you could keep all of your info and blog. Plan tournaments, post videos, pictures, all that kinda stuff.

It’s so obvious:

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5) VIDEO CHAT WHILE GAMING to make all games camera enabled. People will love it or hate it, either way it would be welcomed by most.

4) WEB BROWSER, so we can do all the things we already do on our desktops, in our living rooms.

3) BOARD GAMES like Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary, or Jepordy. Add video chat and this would be all I do on my 360.

2) OPTIONAL EXPANDED PERSONAL PROFILES to help people get to know one another, if you choose to post your info. This could be set up much like myspace.com and would create allot of controversy and publicity but would probably be a formidable rival to myspace.

1) CHAT ROOMS / VIDEO CHAT ROOMS with small games or topics for discussion. People could make their own rooms under a preset list of categories like RPG, FIGHTING, FPS, SOCIAL, SCHOOL, SPORTS etc… Even if only 4 people can be visually displayed at once and the rest only named, this would be easy to create and welcomed. A system of who talks first would need to be created. or just use the keyboard. Or maybe only the 4 people in the video could be heard and the rest type. Either way i think this would be used and appreciated.

You guys have a Video Marketplace…why not a full-fledged games marketplace.

You could "rent" games for a nominal fee.  Buying games would be cool too, but there are hard drive concerns (maybe a steam-like game streaming kind of thing can be involved).

Putting "Keen Eddie" on the video marketplace would be my other suggestion.  Sienna Miller anyone?

Fix the age system, I misset my age so now I will never beable to register a Zune account or see the news updates on my xbox dash and I wont be able to do ANYTHING about it till Microsoft fixes it. Even when the mistyped age turns 18 it still wont work!!

- hdmi port

- when you get a notification when a friend comes online  it is really annoying that when you press the blade to see just the default blade and the friends profile comes up. I would like to think that maybe the back button or a choice to turn it off.

- to see who your friends are playing with like Halo2 used to

- there’s a lot more but othrs have that covered.

Thanks for asking.

Absolutely just one thing, cuz frankly XBOX LIVE is awesome and everyone above already said everything…

ABILITY TO PLAY MORE VIDEO CODECS AND ALLOW THIRD PARTY/OPEN SOURCE SERVERS THE SAME POWER AS MCE (or at least please provide MCE for Windows users!)

It’s so obvious:

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5) VIDEO CHAT WHILE GAMING to make all games camera enabled. People will love it or hate it, either way it would be welcomed by most.

4) WEB BROWSER, so we can do all the things we already do on our desktops, in our living rooms.

3) BOARD GAMES like Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary, or Jepordy. Add video chat and this would be all I do on my 360.

2) OPTIONAL EXPANDED PERSONAL PROFILES to help people get to know one another, if you choose to post your info. This could be set up much like myspace.com and would create allot of controversy and publicity but would probably be a formidable rival to myspace.

1) CHAT ROOMS / VIDEO CHAT ROOMS with small games or topics for discussion. People could make their own rooms under a preset list of categories like RPG, FIGHTING, FPS, SOCIAL, SCHOOL, SPORTS etc… Even if only 4 people can be visually displayed at once and the rest only named, this would be easy to create and welcomed. A system of who talks first would need to be created. or just use the keyboard. Or maybe only the 4 people in the video could be heard and the rest type. Either way i think this would be used and appreciated.

I would love the ability to private chat with more than one friend at once.

I’m big on Video Marketplace, so I’d like to see more content there, of course I understand the many hurdles too.  But I think overall the Marketplace still has a lot of work to be done as far as organization of contentgoes.  It might be nice to have targeted content based on your favorite game type (FPS, RPG trailers if you like GoW and Oblivion respectively).  I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds and I really would like to see some kind of feed for both XBL Marketplace and Video Marketplace.  I keep finding new Video Marketplace content that nobody is posting availability for.  I would also like to see more integration with Messenger, at the least the ability to IM (Xbox to WLM, WLM to Xbox) and see presence again, think it’s still broke. Someone also mentioned default online status, yes please do this.  Sometimes I just want to play quietly without interuption.  For those people with a 100+ friends maybe an option to automatically remove a person from your list if you have not played/communicated with them in a certain number of days.  I can’t imagine there are a lot of people that regularly play with up to 100 people in a week…hence the limit perhaps.  I think the idea of having an option to rate games you play, but only people on your friends list would see it.  Nothing to harsh, just a thumbs up or thumbs down.  Most people on my friends list share the same interest with me, so having the abilty to see if such and such person liked a game would be cool.  Another interesting idea would be to be able to subscribe to content updates for games, this could be done via email, alerts, XBL messaging.  So a new map for CoD3 is released, but I haven’t read my latest Xbox new sites…here is a little alert to remind you.

I think Microsoft is looking for new features, not standards and requirements that games must follow.

I think that MEETING people is a problem with Live. Too often you are forced together with people who you find annoying. I’d rather have a way of meeting people with similar ideals and interests through Live.

What I would like to see implemented is a sort of IRC system of voice/video chat rooms. Where people can just go to chat and find people with similar interests, whether they’re game related or not. Games are not the sole purpose of everyone’s life, if Microsoft wants to grab some attention of non-gamers this might help as well.

I think the voice chat for IPTV is an interesting start. Why not bring it over to the rest of Live through a series of channels.

Of course to keep things civil there would have to be permissions such as kick/ban permissions given to people in certain channels.

Hope to see it implemented.

Better Game/Invite Intergration into the dashboard. Countless times have I tried to Invite People into rooms only to find out that the game doesn’t support that function.

Quite annoying.

How about some type of integrated ladder/tournament software.  You can build a clan or team from the dashboard and communicate via xbl messaging.  A calendar could keep track of upcoming matches and send reminders to team members.

How about dashboard video-editing (putting a movie together then burning it on an integrated DVD burner)? Custom dashboard theme-building or video wallpaper?  An in-game recorder that would record matches you are a part of to the hard drive for future playback or posting on web sites?  Custom avatar’s that you can upload (not just pictures taken with the xbox cam).

- A web browser would defiantly be a nice add-on and would defiantly take away sony and nintendos exclusives.

- Bigger Private Chats (being able to have more then one person in a private chat, actually have a conference of about 3 to 4 people so you can chat with a group of your friends)

- Being able to switch your live account from child to adult after you have already registered (I’m 18 and cant see the marketplace ads due to the child account)

- Bigger Video Chats (3 to 4 people just like the private voice chats)

- RSS channel / Podcasts to listen to on your 360 (Would be cool to listen to majors podcast on my 360)

- Able to preview themes, gamer pics, and other paid items before purchasing.

- Bigger HDD (100 GB preferably)

Thats about it, thanks.

I think that will be cool , more space in the friend list and in the area of the DVD drive that say Open Tray/Close Tray/ Playing Game maybe that when one game is insert in the tray and you are in the dashboard put the name of the game there or a movie and in the friend list the option of create groups like Live messenger…

I would love to see Microsoft allow more than 2 people in private chat, at the very least 4 possibly 8 or even 16.

-Provide some sort of age grouping for players on live

I am currently an Xbox Live and Netflix subscriber. As you probably know they are rolling out a new download service. I would like you to work with Netflix to either download their content directly to the 360 or to my PC and play it on my 360 via Media Connect. As it’s a subscription service I don’t really care if it expires in a week or so, I just want to be able to watch it on my HDTV. I have a PC connection so I can always hook up my laptop or mac mini to it but the 360 is already there and ready to go. Hook a brother up.

In addition to the universal clan and party system, which really..would just be insanely great…but I think that being able to take your live account to a friends house actually took a step backwards.  I used to be able to enter my credit card numbers and it comes right up, but now i get a warning that it may corrupt some files on my original xbox..make this easier and not an excuse to buy a memory card.  I know points work better on a subconscious level, people are more apt to spend points than dollars..but it adds an unnecessary step to the process.  Personally i’d be more apt to impulse buy if i didn’t have that extra step to think about.

CLAN AND PARTY SUPPORT is far and away the biggest room for growth.  I’d gladly give up all the videos, XBLA, iptv, themes, gamerpics, and achievements for that.

It would be cool if I could change my Gamertag once in a while or have a couple aliases.

Right now Xbox Live is great if you have no "real life" friends using the service.  But there are a host of inconveniences that crop up if (like most humans) you have people on your friends list who you either know or trust more than the rest…  Therefore, I (and probably just about everyone else) would like clan support in the dash.  I will now elaborate on what that means in order of importance/difficulty:

1) Initially this means being able to invite people from my friends list to be in my clan.  After they agree, their names should appear in a smaller/separate list somewhere in the dash (a new blade perhaps?).  The most magical part of this is when I can click on the "invite clan" button and have all their included names get invites into my current game.  This feature should be able to work with ALL games present and future.

2) Next I want some improved features in the dash for communicating with my clan.  A multi-person-chat would be useful so that we can discuss clan strategies or issues on our own channel.  These tend to be people I really know in real life, so there are bonus points if you make it a multi-person-LIVE-Vision-cam-chat.  This feature should also exist outside of games.  The more people you let me meet with all at once, the better.  A lot of people just want this feature added period, whether or not it’s affiliated with clans.

3) Next I want you to enable me to have a few different clan lists.  That way I can have one for my clan, one list for just my family, one for my friends who ONLY ever want to play winter sports games… I think you get the idea.  The friends list is great in that its infinitely superior to "no friends list", but its also kind of clunky when you have to select the same names to invite every single time…

4) Next I want to see some features added to make all the social stuff easier.  I want a calendar in there to show when we have clan matches scheduled and a sign up sheet for that.  I ALSO want to be able to schedule recurring meetings, so that people can take turns choosing the game that night…  AND I want reminders sent to my email when its my turn to pick the games.  A voting system for approving of these games would be nice too.  And it would be best if all these features could be reached BOTH on the 360 OR on a web enabled PC….

5) I would like to see some effort made by LIVE! to coordinate clans who want compete against other clans in games.  It would be nice if a clans calendar could be aware of how many other clans (which share the same ability rating) are planning to play a particular game in a given time slot and could therefore indicate ideal times for finding a matchup…

Finally, I want to request that an effort be made to have more games take advantage of the new clan system.  Basically keep the clans in mind when designing games so that there are more games to support clan based matchmaking needs.  As a bonus, less effort will have to be spent on clan UI since that will have now migrated to the LIVE! service where it really belongs…  I expect though, that if you just make it easier for people to play in the groups that they naturally form anyways, that there will automatically be more support for clans in games.  Right now, the system is artificially biased AGAINST clans.  And thats a serious impediment to building a solid community…  If you are curious about what happens when you build a community in this way, please see the game World of Warcraft: you know, for reference.

Well I’d say the biggest extra feature that could be incorperated is some sort of universal matchmaking standard that allows friend play in matchmade games.

If not that, a Video Chat room for more people than 4 sounds like a good idea.

If possible, the ability to switch languages from the Live keyboard would be nice. I am American but I live in Japan. Having to switch my console’s language settings to send messages to my Japanese friends, then switch it back to send messages’s to my U.S./Aussie friends is kind of a pain.

All i ask for is a web browser. please, please, please?

1. Web Browser

2. Party Chat

3. Full Downloadable Games

4. Incentive for Live Gold members

5. Friends list organization

6. See the title of game or movie in the drive on the dashboard.

7. Quicker guide access.

8. Zune connectivity

9. Xbox newsletter

10. Customizable main dashboard page

I CAN NOT BELIVE THAT NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING ANTHING ABOUT THE CHEATING THAT GOES ON AND ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO FIX IT.

– ANTI-CHEATING SYSTEM ANYBODY!–

OH I KNOW WHY… ALL THE GOONS WOULD LOSE THEIR ACCOUNTS BECAUSE OF THE BULLSHIT MODS THEY HAVE TO HAVE ON THEIR XBOXES.

SUCK IT UP AND BUY A "PC"…

I’d really like it if they’d get rid of the cost for the XNA creator’s club.

It seems arbitrary and an impediment to having a popular XNA game.

It has been said, but it needs to be said again.

MAKE ALL OF HALO2′S LIVE FUNCTIONALITY STANDARD

Simple, Intuitive, Functional. IF this were standard across all games, I don’t think anyone would have a problem paying for LIVE.

   Google defines "community" primarily, as a group of people living in a similar locale. Secondly, as a people of similar ethnicities or cultures. Lastly, as people with common possession or ownership.

   The problem with Live is the inability to meet this definition. I couldn’t play, talk, share, or grow with my next door neighbor if I did not already know he/she has live. Moreso, I have a 1 in 5,000,000 chance of hitting him or her in game and even a lesser chance of talking to them, liking them, and adding them to my friends to maintain future contact.

    I propose first, that there should be a way to find friends in your locale. Meet new people and old people you had no idea lived in a "Live World" if you will. A myspace/facebook type social network would rectify this problem and allow Live to grow by word of mouth much faster and more strongly then a two month free card.

   Secondly, it is very hard to meet a person on Live that shares your common interests in music, movies, tv, etc…, beyond gaming. This type of bond is needed to make a friend on your friend list more then a mere gaming acquaintance. Personalized blog spaces that would be accessible, viewable, and amendable from your xbox 360+, "live world" space (mentioned previously), mobile phone, zune, PC, and other outlets, divided into sections and viewable by the masses to offer community cohesivness through common interests and bonding could solve this problem.

   As long winded as this is, the last thing that would make Live more alive would be persistant connection to all things Live. There is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to talk on the phone with friends from your list, schedule game/chat appointments through a type of enhanced messaging service, or have a categorized friends list that includes those you meet in the game world or those not affiliated with gaming. An example of this would be carrying a voice chat from your xbox 360 with a person you game with and simultaneously with a person you have never gamed with but share music through zune with. You gaming friend and music friend then have a chance to meet where before it never existed. Live, then expands. The gamertag should be more then a game affiliation.

   Live should be a community connected by common interests using technology, not a soveriegn group of people using independent technologies to vainly and desperately search for a portion of those common interests. If you like hard rock, Monet, and Halo, you should be able to find others interested in rock music, art, and fps without settling for a friend on your list that only likes a single one of those. This would make the community more meaningful to the individual and increase the chances of a Live member becoming a permanant fixture rather then a passing gaming fad.  

1. Group chat

2. Increase friends list from 100 to 500.

3. See the title of game or movie in the drive on the dashboard.

4. Quicke guide access.

5. More online tournaments.

6. Larger HDD

7. Convenent method of getting all my stuff from my current HDD to said larger HDD.

Gamertag: Da2kballa

Ability to queue up marketplace downloads via xbox.com. So that when you boot up 360 later on, the downloads can start without having to navigate the console marketplace.

Multi-person private chat channels!  I want a private chat with at least 3 other people.

I’d really like to be able to sort my friends list by clans. This way I can know that THIS list is my Halo2 friends list, THIS list is my Shacknews.com list, THIS list is my real life friends list…

Sorting through a hundred names while trying to keep track of everyone is getting old.

1. Streaming files other than .wmv like .avi (XVID and DIVX) and .mkv

2. Use the halo 2 matchmaking source code for all matchmaking (in other games).

2. User created (all panels of dashboard) themes.

3. Larger chat sessions in dashboard (like on the old xbox)

4. Be able to delete played games with no achievement points.

5. Tournaments.

6. Larger support for USB hard drives. My Western Digital doesnt work with the console.

Gamertag: Yo New Daddy

Besides my post early on something else just come to mind.

A broadcast system on a clan blade that shows all clan members important messages and upcoming matches.

And i would also like to be able to remove played games i wish say for arcade demo’s i tried but did not buy.

Or there should be a scripted feature that removed these automatically say after a couple weeks.

1. option to alow xbox headset to be used as headphones, mainly for people who dont have a headphone jack on their tv or stereo. like me.

2. allow achievements on major games like halo2.

3. downloading when the machine is off. like the wii

4. rss feeds, inbuilt widgets.

multiple private chat or team chat. also clan support/ clan blade.

You had it right the last time.

1) A conference style lobby where a certian number of individuals can chat instead of switching between 4 people. Me and many others think that the conference chat feature was/is great. it doesn’t have to be while you game. Just a chat lobby like a dashboard chat lobby. From 12-16 people

2) Trying to match canadian gamers with canadian gamers isn’t that fun, we could be sitting in a lobby of gears w8ing forever for a random gamer to come and when they do its someone from the same country which leads me to believe that xbox live trys to match people from the same country and profile which is killing the fun factor. I would wish to play with other people besides fellow canadians thank you.

This is probably a utopian request, but why not push our o nintendo ds cartridge with some live arcade games on it or make the ability to download arcade games you own onto it. Then with the wi-fi connection, establish a secure connection to live to play online, on the go!

Just a Few:

-CUSTOM BUDDY NAMES IN PLACE OF YOUR FRIENDS GAMERTAGS(major nelson=gamertag   HOMEY=wat i would name him)

-VIDEO MESSAGES, LONGER VOICE MESSAGES(20-25 SECONDS AT LEAST)…

-ABILITY TO STREAM OTHER VIDEO TYPES BESIDES WMV(MPEG,AVI, etc…)

-INTERGRATE THE "OFFICIAL XBOX MAGAZINE" ON THE SITE SUMHOW(hey,we’re paying $50 a year for this service, lets shut everyone up and prove to them why it’s worth every penny)

-BEING ABLE TO SEE THE NAME OF THE MOVIE/SONG MY FRIENDS ARE LISTENING TO/WATCHING(i guess it’ll only work with labels and companies thats signed on with yall)

-A MINI PROFILE WOULD BE COOL..U CAN POST ANYTYPE OF INFO YOU’D LIKE(UR AGE, PERSONAL PICTURE,HOBBIES)…

- LONGER MOTTO’S WOULD BE COOL AS WELL…

THATS ALL I GUESS…LOL..

Its been said several times before: Groups (eg. clans). I was shocked when I turned on my 360 for the first time and Microsoft did not integrate their already developed (but admittedly weak) online group system, which would have capitalized on the popularity on networking sites such as MySpace and gaming’s own clan system in software such as Halo. Much needed.

a)A Chat lobby that doesn’t involve 1 person. I would rather have 10 people to chat with than 1 person.

the new lobbys suck except for the fact that you can chat while you play. add an extra lobby for just group chat.

b)(live related? dunno…)Dashboard smoothness like which was stated from other people. take halo 2 as a template. the frame lag between each time you select something is painful to watch and it seems that it pushes the systems power especially when you have a game running in the background.

actually just give us quad core processors!

You are the only person on live as much as me (and my son).

I have to admit that I barely play online. I really only want to play coop online with folks I know. Most of the people on my friend list found me (none of my pals have bought 360′s sadly).

Maybe there should be a community of interest feature – blog type service centered on particular games and genres. People could meet like-minded gamers that way.

I really like the mute idea. I mute PGR3 and Burnout they few times I play online. Maybe a global option.

More games should prompt for a player rating after a game session. That would be cool.

The ability to upload custom avatar images would be nice.

How about a built game video recorder and a Myspace-like place where we could show off our skills.

Some of these would really add to Gold value proposition.

My small two cents (until I’ve had a chance to read all these great ideas):

- forget the web browser. blah. who needs it for a console.

- I *LOVE* achievements (maybe too much ). What about a simple "task list" on the main dashboard page that shows the 3 or 4 achievements you’ve flagged to complete.  I tend to, during a slow work day, think about that achievment I want to work on when I get home….

- group chat would be cool

- can we, as a community, make our own themes?

- I like the streaming preview videos now available in the marketplace… can we have that for trailers and game videos?  I’ve never understood the idea of having to download a movie trailer before watching. that definately an on-demand thing in my books.

Thanks to the Live team for making this system ROCK!

I would like it if the size of your Live Friends list was increased to larger than the present size. Right now if you meet a few people in just a few games, or you have plenty of friends and friends’ friends in real life, you can easily hit the limit and your Friends list is always permanently full. This is so annoying and simply making the list bigger would solve so many problems. Thank you.

How about different dash board themes, apparantly there was a cool looking one that involved spheresbefore the 360 was released.Also multiple vidio/voice chat with at least two other people.

Here’s a simple one downloading and playing games at the same time.

I would like XBOX achievements to translate into Live credits. I have always thought that would be a simple, rewarding feature to provide subscribers. This is related to my secod point that there needs to be an MS based ‘price control’ for developer content on Live. The percieved value of additional content is all you can really ever charge. For the large part this sort of serial distribution scheme is a turn-off to gamers, and can only hurt what I feel is the future of media distribution.

So i think someone might have said it,

Netflix Killer – i was thinking 2 standard movies at anytime for 10 a month… i would do it. Maybe similar thing for TV… I’m not sure what a good price point would be.

Don’t have a zune but Zune integration to the point of it’s own ecosystem, effectively removing the PC from the Equation (which means music store).

MORE CONTENT!!1!

Better Movie Organization on Media Blade.

- A multi-user chat room for the dashboard.

- The Halo 2 matchmaking system integrated into all team based competitive multiplayer games

- Bigger friends list

A few highlights:

1. Information on physical location via GPS or other means.

2. All of your data (from Outlook data to video files) and applications (on virtual machines) kept in the cloud and accessible from any device you log on to.

More thoughts at http://thunor.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!71C238B5E0E3724D!172.entry

Xbox 360 community… I believe it is time for a change. A time for all good men to come to the aid of their ‘community’ and supply the new needs to the world.

Here is my predicament:

  I have been a member of Xbox Live now for 4 1/2 years. Through those years I have added, dropped, scared away, and denied friends. I reached 100 about 2 years ago and didn’t seem to mind…Now, with over 4 million folks on the Xbox Live community, it is extremely hard to squeeze it down to 100 people. About 95 of my friends have played in the past 24 hours, and I know the personality of every last one of them. I meet new people every day that I want to remember and play with for a long time. The friends list organization system is what makes Xbox 360 the ruler of all consoles in some sorts. Also, being an Xbox Ambassador, I find it nearly impossible to keep up with the new friends I get every day and keep the old pals I love to play with. I recieve about 5 friend requests a day. I can’t count how many priceless friends I’ve had to abandon because of the 100 friend limit. I rarely play with the same gamer twice and don’t want to miss the chance to play with them just because I have reached my ‘limit.’

  Please, Microsoft and the Xbox faithful and staff; offer a way, any way, that us gamers may have the chance to reach more than just 100 people. If this truly is a community, shouldn’t it be larger than 100? I would even pay for the opportunity to have more friends. I don’t know if this is impossible, or just too hard to incorporate, but please consider it. The Xbox veterans would be forever grateful.

Sincerely,

CrAzYbRoS

1) considering the sucess of itunes and the initial release of the zune (nodoubt the zune will follow a simuliar path as the xbox1 by releasing a new zune) a music marketplace taking advantage of itunes like presentation

2) interface overhaul, the blade concept is brilliant visual interface, but within those more and more content is made available presentation needs to visually engaging instead of semi-list based interface, make it more like media centre or itunes when dealing with media rich content

3) with the annoucement of iptv a quickstart standby state like a set top box, iptv functionality with slingboxes, not only working with content exclusive to service providers but possibly interfacing with open source distrubution such as the Joost (formaly the venice project) and ultilising existing public services such as democracy player. Sreaming internet radio with shoutcast

4) Web browser! please! or at least incorporate .net services such as msn messenger and hotmail

5) not strictly xbox live but added support for other video formats, divx, xvid, mpeg etc

6) BIGGER HARD DRIVE FOR ALL THIS MEDIA or possibly allowing usb storage for DVR

- I’d like to see blades provided to 3rd party publishers so more content can be delivered to Live Arcade quicker.  Allows a stronger brand presence for the publisher as well.

- I’d also like to see a blade for the Indie game developers where indie, and perhaps even beta quality arcade content can be provided.  A separate subscription cost may be appropriate here so only those people who really want to mess around with indie content get access to it.

- More innovation in the games is needed and an Indie blade would allow that to happen while still keeping it separate from the commercial games.

- How about some basic applications too?  Simple stuff that my grandma could use rather than having to have  a full blown computer – that is too hard to learn how to use.

I would love to see a feature added so when you have a game in your 360. When you went to "Play game" it would say the name of the game you are about to play or show a picture, something of that nature.

Also, I would love a way for people that "opted-out" of advertisements when they first signed up on the 360, to be able to change back. So that the "featured downloads" and the other banners would work. ALOT of people did not know this would block features on their actual 360. And ALOT would also like to get them back. You can opt-in again, but it does not fix the features to show up on your 360.

1. Syncronicity between devices (i.e. Zune support).

2. More support for different file types for video (divx,mov, etc.)

3. Making your own themes.

4. Achievments available on backwards compatable xbox-1 games.

5. XNA for free, for those of us who would like to experiment in making our own games it’s a bit much to pay upfront, perhaps following ebay’s percentage of what sells approach would be more fitting and fair.

6. Larger Hard Drive or way to archive downloads onto my computer or other device without major expendature.

The ability to remove games from your xbox.com played list.

What I mean is when I download trials they are added and lower my achievment total percentage.

Know what I mean?

One of the key components of Live that has taken off in a huge and unexpected way is, of course, the Gamerscore. What if this seemingly arbitrary number was applied to achievements in other applications – being a frequent Windows Live Messenger user, for example, or recommending x amount of songs to a friend via the Zune’s sharing function. Obviously this would have to be moderated to ensure that it wasn’t abused (band labels offering Achievements if you own or purchase a band’s entire discography comes to mind), but I really think this could take off in other areas than gaming – and of course entice the general user, who has achieved some points through some arbitrary means, to further bolster his score with some Arcade title play.

Of course, to the general public there should really be some value given to Gamerscore; I doubt they will accept it simply as a valueless figure. This has been suggested countless times before, but the conversion to Microsoft Points is an obvious one. To go back to the Zune example before – if a user shares music which the recipient then purchases, and is rewarded a certain amount of Gamerscore, then he should be able to redeem those points at a later date for currency due to his influence in another consumer using Microsoft’s service. If I might be so bold, a plan of two different types of points could be used, as explained hypothetically below:

When a user gains Gamerscore of say, 50 points, he gains those points as before. These are the score kept on his Gamertag and profile, and the measurement that is familiar with gamers today. However, under the new system, he gains 50 ‘token’ points also. These are expendable but do not expire – 50 token points could be redeemed for 5 Microsoft Points, for example. Thus, once a player reaches 8000 Gamerscore, he can redeem his 8000 tokens for 800 MSPoints, and get a free Arcade game for his efforts.

I need not expound on the virtues of Xbox features integrated with Live Messenger – no doubt plans are already in the works if not superseded by Vista’s capability – but the value of the ability to send Live messages (voice, text and photo) and check the status of Friends in Live Messenger cannot be overstated. I mention this mainly to allow those who do not upgrade to Vista to still gain some of the added functionality that a unified Live service could bring.

(wdtempleton at gmail dot com)

In addendum to the Gamerscore theory I posted above, I’d like to add that, of course, the gamer’s 8000 Gamerscore would remain untouched as a value of his status, and to all Live users he would still have those Achievements and points – yet at that point he would of course have no token points left to redeem until he accumulated more Gamerscore. It is also worth noting that the Microsoft Points, once claimed, could well have an expiry date.

There are many more functions I would like to describe, but they all seem a logical step from a unified service – voice and video chat cross-platform from Vista/360, for example, but they need not be mentioned, as obvious as they are.

(wdtempleton at gmail dot com)

1) I would like to be able to back my save game files and my arcade games via not having to buy things.

2) Get better OS X support.

I would like a descent freeride mountain biking game. Then I would like the ability to create my own trail on my pc, using XNA or something and then be able to share it on Xbox Live etc. You could even have trail building contests.

J. Allard are you listening? You like to mountain bike. I saw you riding at Whistler. We need something to keep the stoke up.

any kind of text chat support!

i cant do voice chat at night.

some kind of BBS on dashboard would nice as well.

I would like to see the cost of Xbox HD content to go down in price.  

Some aspects of Live should accommodate the more casual gamer/clans.  There are some of us who aren’t concerned with rank or gamerscore, and are just looking to have an enjoyable time with our friends.  Having things like group chat (outside of games, anyway) and better ways of finding each other with party matchmaking would improve the experience without feeling *forced* into grinding for rank just to keep up with who you can happen to find with trueskill matching.  

Trueskill is great, it keeps people from ending up in horribly lopsided matches – but having a rank-driven system also means that over time the bulk of the population drives to the upper ranks, leaving casual gamers to fend for themselves in the shallow end of the pool with little means of support for finding each other to continue matchups.

1. Be able to organize my Xbox Live friends into groups (e.g. friends, family, clan members, etc.) or be able to edit their info within my list to give them a "tag" of "friend", "family", etc..

2. Be able to send longer text and voice messages. 250 characters and 15 seconds just doesn’t cut it!

3. An easy way to invite friends into a multiplayer game that you are *not* the host of.

FREE GAMES!

Except for achievement points no one buys things like Hardwood Backgammon and Hearts and after the first month no one is going to buy any of the other card and board games you have announced. Most people would rather save the $5 and play what comes with windows or go to Yahoo Games.

Just port over the games you already have and give them achievements but no points and vision cam support.. If you have to make money for it put an ad on the start menu (but please not in the game itself).

I know that would make me feel alot better about paying $50 for Live.

Not necessarily “big” ideas, but I think they’d be very useful to the Live experience:

-Gamerscore perks. Currently gamerscores only exist as bragging rights, but to me it could be so much more. It would be cool to create a tiered system, in which you receive perks when you reach certain gamerscore milestones. Each tier could feature exclusive content, such as free gamer pictures or themes. Not necessarily “HEY IVE GOT 5000 GAMERSCORE!” themes, but something more general like the Xbox Community picture/theme content. An even cooler possibility would be a free arcade download at a high tier. It would be necessary to prevent abuse of the system, so the current way the gamerscore is exploited would need to be fixed. This suggestion could really drive game sales if people feel the drive to reach higher tiers (Gamerscore more addicting? Is this possible? :]).

-More flexible DRM on downloads. Currently if your 360 breaks, you’re unable to access your paid content on a replaced 360 without being signed into Live. The only way to get around this is to use an archaic workaround by creating a second Live account and receiving new points through technical support. This process takes 7 days and doesn’t actually restore your content rights to the original Live account. Ideally, I think you should be able to login to Xbox.com with your Live account and have the ability to assign your current 360 serial number to your account, allowing you to use all paid content tied to your Live account on this 360 serial. Allow the serial to only be changed every so many days (30…60?) to prevent abuse between users.

-More advanced friends list. In my opinion the current friends list is a bit unmanageable at larger sizes. Have the ability to sort your friends list into subcategories, such as “Friends at College”, “Work”, “Gears of War buddies”, broken up by the titles or in separate tabs. You should also be able to choose how the lists are sorted. Either alphabetically, last login, or even sorted to your choosing (best friends on top, for instance).

-More advanced voice chat. To my knowledge, you can have many voice chat slots, but are unable to have each slot hear every single slot. You should be able to hold a “conference call”, not have to switch back and forth by putting each friend on hold. I want to be able to chat with a whole group of buddies so we can decide on what game we want to play together, which game lobby to join together before all the player slots fill, that kind of thing.

Sorry if any of these have been covered already, I didn’t manage to read everyone’s reply. Good luck with the future of Live!

A couple of things.

The current friends list could contain you friends.

Then the addition of a ‘watched players’ list. People that are not necessary a list of friends (so no invites or anything) but just a list you could add people to. The benefit would be enormous in finding lag free games because you could keep a list of people that live nearby and play often. Another addition to the friends list would be a better management system, whether it be though grouping friends, or have a two tiered universal friends list, and game specific games list.

Beyond friends, a universal lobby area would be great. If you had a map of the world and could see little indicators of who is on live at the moment and what are they doing. Also, a general geographically located chat area where you could meet people to play something. Think of a an area where a couple of people suggest an idea for a game to play and then you could vote yourself into that game. Or you could throw-out a general request for help in a co-op game of gears of war and find someone without have to ask friends.

Music streaming in games would be great. It seems like one of those things that music industry will fight but they really shouldn’t. You could allow a games host to choose music to stream to all the other players, and they could mute it if they don’t like. If music industry won’t let you do that, then possible have the music companies stream a soundtrack of selected songs to your game. You could choose to have the "EMI picks of the week" soundtrack playing in your game.

More customization support. If you could deliver some PC tools that let you make your own dashboard themes or design your cars paint job that could be sent to your xbox, that would be awesome. Also, in bridging between the pc and the xbox, allowing mods or custom maps to be played on the xbox would be awesome. The xbox would be much better off it was more able to embrace modders and user customization. While not a fully fledged browser, a simple interface for accessing internet Flash files would be an idea.

-Multi-person voice chat

-Ability to RW/FF music

-Ability to change SFX/game music volume within the Xbox Guide blade (as not all games allow you to do this)

-Web Browser

-Ability to make themes and gamer pics, then sell them on Xbox Live Marketplace for some MSPoints

-Using the pictures for each Achievement you’ve unlocked as a gamer pic.

-Ability to choose how to organize friends list: alphabetical or by “Games Owned.” Each player should be able to designate which of their played games they still own. If I search for friends under Games Owned->Gears of War, then all of my friends with GoW will show up on the list.

-Show the name of the Game/DVD/CD in the drive

-Increase movie rentals to three days

-Ability to download audio files so I can download Major Nelson’s blogcast each week and listen on my 360

-Ability to subscribe to MN’s blogcast once you can download it

-Ability to delete played games and any GamerScore associated with it (so i can download XBLA demos without it showing up on my GamerCard FOREVER)

-Clans made available in all team-based games

-Spectator mode made available in all multiplayer games

-Collective Xbox Live Ranking System. Whenever you play in ranked matches online, not only will it affect your rank in that game, but also a collective rank for all of your games. (This can unify your games and and the community alike a la Achievements/Gamerscore/Rep)

-Ability to turn off “GamerTag is online” notifications only

-When sorting through videos from your PC using your 360, it should list them by folder just as it does for pictures.

-Choose your own Guide background image off of your computer (just like themes)

-More downloadable Dashboard Trims

-Ability to listen to radio stations on your system. Obviously, it’s too late to install an FM reciever like the Zune, but what if we could stream radio stations off the internet, as most stations allow you to do that anyways? Most radio stations in the U.S. are owned by one or two companies, so many work out a deal with them to help give the Xbox 360 direct access to these radio stations.

-FOX on Live Marketplace, so I can download any episodes of 24 if I miss them. Other popular shows include The Simpsons, Family Guy, and (ugh) American Idol.

-When changing gamerpics, allow us to “Change Both” instead of having to do both “Change Gamer Picture” AND “Change Personal Picture”

video podcasts

webcam chatting between 360 and pc owners.

I’d like to be able to choose from a wide variety of layouts for the dashboard. I know there are different ‘themes’, but I’d like to see different styles (as in changing the look of a website using css). The current dashboard is nice but how about something a little more "grown-up" or professional.

Also, I’d really like to see more movies for rent. And how about a 48 or 72 hour time limit to watch?

Thanks!

a news section where you can read up to date news on videogames , xbox360 news as they happen , news on other systems

better connectivity when connecting a 360 to acomputer using a usb to put music and movies also photos without a hassle

better support for xbox phone service customer support sucks i know more then they do * i know this does not relate to xbl sorry *

connectivivty between msn messanger and xbl * already for vista

add more friends can not stress this enough and i know other people are the same >.<

better xbl games , most xbl games like dead rising are crap without some xbl support

gears of war clan suuport , what happend to that …= (

xbox360 theme request where we can request some themes

bettter xbl arcade games with better connection no drops and lag

change the whole 7 day or 24 hour thing for xblmarketplace movies

vamp the resolution to at lease 1080i

better chat options like hold rb*lb and press y to change chat room when talking to friends or somethin

check email since it is hotmail ^_^

watch funny videos

record games

actual tournaments that you guys promised us

more game with fame with more bands

thursday linkinpark

kayne

bands like that

xbox clans not game but xbox clans

and everything else iv missed

A few more ideas just came to mind!

My "big" idea:

-Xbox Live Drive. An online hard drive for your 360. This would be accessed through Live and be used to store gamer profiles, game saves, gamer pics, themes and paid content remotely. Also, it would be great to have the ability to store a mirror of your physical hard drive through this service, so you can have a backup, and the ability to transfer all of your current hard drive content onto a larger sized hard drive in the future.

A base service should be available to all paid Gold subscribers, with the ability to increase your drive space for a set, non-annual price.

A "small" idea:

-We really need the ability to remove games from our "previously played" list, especially the arcade demos! I’ve demoed about every arcade game, so my list looks like a mess. It makes comparing gamerscore with friends a lot more confusing.

– ability to save games settings and profile on live

- live anywhere on zune, window mobile and IE,Firefox Web browser

(including WPF/E support)

- ability to "record in game play" and stream to any devices

- music store, full interop with zune

- remote queued content from xbox live using a zune over wifi.

- live RSS integration

- Live alert integration

I wish to see more accessibility to game stats online similar to Halo 2.  Being that this is the next generation I thought I would see more of this but apparently no one has done it yet.

Fixing those irritating NAT connection problems

Private voice chat with multiple users at one time

But for long term:

Bigger online multiplayer matches, minimum 50 players

Complete back compatibility list for Xbox games (Possible?)

Ability for users to modify games (Creatively, not in a h4xx0r sort of way)

And give XBL Gold members more hook ups.  Right now it seems very limited.  Being able to play multiplayer is good but there should be more than that and giving gold members access to content before silver members doesn’t cut it.  Maybe discounts or even FREE!!!

The complete media experience plz, kthx.

Short Version:

- Play games, both on disc and downloaded.

- Download *ALL* content.

- Selection of bitrates/qualities with exchanges.

- Portability at no extra charge.

- Play nice with other NAS devices *AND*

- A bigger hard drive/Selection of HDs to choose from.

Long Version:

- Play games.

Gotta remember your roots. Nobody wants to see the XBox platform become a Media Center PC that can’t game. Nobody. First and foremost, remember to rock the gaming capabilities first and foremost. If nothing else, gaming takes the mad hardware, media functionality takes a little applications and massive storage space. Just bear in mind that it’s gaming first, media second.

- Download ALL content

I’ve heard to a number of things referred to as the “center of your digital entertainment world”, etcetera. I think the 360 is really one of the first devices that really has a shot at doing it in any truly meaningful (read:hugely successful) way. In order to do that you have to replace all of the content that currently occupies the center of my non-digital entertainment world. That means Movies, TV, Trailers for movies/games/etcetera, demos, music, ad infinitum. All of it. I just saw this neat short film on Valve’s STEAM service the other day. Something called ‘Zombie Movie’. The movie itself was amusing (and disturbing) enough, but it was free and we all like free stuff. If Valve packed more video…even *for pay* video on there…I would at least check it out. I think the 360′s upcoming IPTV STB capabilities are a big step in the right direction (so long as we get some exponentially bigger HDs for HD DVR functionality, more on that later). I have told my friends time and time again that the day I can get all of the shows I watch in HD from an online download service is the day I kick Comcast to the curb. I would rather give my money to Microsoft’s evil empire than Apple’s evil empire, but whoever does it first is really going to win my nickels and dimes. (At least Microsoft isn’t the ‘we’re better than you and we know it’ evil empire. I swear Apple is turning more and more into the GloboGym douche bags from Dodgeball.)

- Selection of bitrates/qualities with exchanges.

When you’re dealing with lossy codecs the balance of quality vs. size is always a personal choice. Personally, I think the bitrate iTunes offers music at is awful but, on the other hand, I don’t need my stuff to be lossless, either. Since all it costs you guys is some additional storage space to make everyone happy, please build a few more RAIDs, plug in some NAS devices and just offer everything from (equivalent) MP3 128Kb/s up to lossless. I don’t even care what codec or file format you wrap it up in (like it wouldn’t be WMA/WMV or something, lol), just let me pick the quality I want. This is a SERIOUS no-brainer. The same goes for video, too. Consumers can accept that HD content with cost more than SD content. We’re ok with that for now until “high” definition become the “standard” definition, and then we’re gonna expect some price breaks, but that isn’t today, to be sure. However, if I buy the HD copy of a movie or TV episode and then clear it off my HD, I should be able to come back and re-grab the HD version again OR any qualities lower than it. Perhaps I just wanted to show a friend something someone said on an old episode of Meet The Press or something… I don’t need the HD version (and it’s associated download time) to do that. Additionally, maybe I want to move a movie to my portable device (much more on portables later) but I bought the HD version… my portable doesn’t support HD. Guess how pleased I will be with my experience if I have to go buy that movie *again* just to get it in a compatible resolution or aspect ratio. Simply put: We’re ok with the tiered pricing, but

I would just like to see more stability for the network. Maybe add some additional servers located in different time zones to allow for some faster downloading. As it stands now, I get about 1/3rd of my 15Mbit download. On the PC, I get full speed all of the time. Yet on the 360, I always seem capped at 5Mbit. I am on the east coast, so you know. Specifically, in Maryland using Mediacom.

360 plus Homeserver – who needs ONE bigger HD – what will you do when it is full again? Integrate 360 and it will be fine!

A good number of clans are forum-based.  But one thing stifling the formation of new clans is that they may not have ready access to resources like message boards to get together, organize, and form a social bond.

We originally tried our clan on an MSN Group, and it was a mediocre experience, mainly because the groups features (messaging, scheduling) was so primitive and difficult to manage.  We only survived because we were *already* a group before we started on MSN groups, then subseqently left MSN for a more robust message board system.

The whole MSN Groups system should be overhauled into a high-caliber system with a full featured message board system and calendar features – then tie THAT into Live! so that if people want to form clans they have a ready template to build on.  

please remove xbox live arcade demos from users achievements lists. it looks messy having games we havent even purchased in our achievements scores and discourages people from downloading arcade demos.  

Imagine what it wil be like in a few years when we have 100 games we never even bought in our game list (with a big fat 0 next to them), im surprised this wasnt patched ages ago.

Anyone see the film "anti-trust" and the product to commonly collaborate between different platforms…"Synapse"….

I’m just saying is all

I would like to see a grouping system for your friends in live. Such as "friends", "Gaming Clan", "GoW friends" and etc for examples. even the ability to name said groups.

The ability to chat with more then one friend at a time. or conferences.

to get achievements offline and have them show up when you go online.

a feedback regarding the XBox live arcade games.

perhaps the ability to attach an external memory source and back up content on there incase of HDD crashes.

feedback on people where we put our own input in especially so we can describe how people are talking or cheating.

What I think would be really cool to have with Live is the ability to watch my friends playing from my PC. Maybe I am not able to play for whatever reason, but MSN tells me that my lil bro is playing Gears or whatever, it’d be cool to be able to connect and see some video of how he’s doin as well as send him some messages to give him crap.

Well, standard e-mail would be a very good start (with options to choose from your friends list and entering e-mail adress by hand), as well as access to the WWW – when talking Xbox.

Also, a better way of entering text would be good (again talking Xbox). PSP is onto something hera, but did you see the Wii – that kind of controller (pointer funcionality, not the motion sensor) would ease the usage a ton.

Internet radio in Live would also be nice – and the possibility to listen this while gaming instead of soundtrack.

Be able to backup Xbox save games to a central server (or even one of the newly announced Windows Home Servers). It worries me that all my save game and DLC are on the Xbox HDD and hard disks fail  :-(

Remove the local CDDB and switch to an online one.

And switch from an online Live downloadable content database to an updating locally stored one to speed up the menu.

Make the description of the downloable content user scrollable. I hate that auto scroller. Too slow

You guys claim PS3s online is a disaster, but in all honesty it’s multimedia capabilities make 360′s look like a disaster. Your PR guys (you included Oz) need to stop acting like children and pointing out other companies flaws when you have your own to fix. 360 is a media extender, where PS3 is a media server. And it shows.

-For example, only one button should call the on screen menu while playing movies. The others should do things that show up on the menu.

-There shouldn’t be a menu in between pressing A when a movie is selected, and playing it. Get rid of that menu with play as an option, and make the movie play. Use a right-click style menu to delete it.

-Let us hold the guide button and press L or R trigger to switch tracks for custom soundtracks, it would be quicker than going into the guide.

-How about letting us copy unprotected movies to USB devices

-Add Media Center’s little preview window in a corner, so we can have a movie playing while browsing elsewhere in the main menu.

-How about using that notification window to tell us of track changes while using custom soundtracks

You seem against a web browser, but it gives PS3 features you guys want to add to the 360. My roommate is watching IPTV right now on my PS3 thanks to peakvid. You’re playing catchup. And for god’s sakes, 360 should match XBOX Media Center in functionality

Evolve gamer zone to include / exclude age groups and add age verification upon Live signup.  Find the ‘legal loopholes’ needed to avoid litigation.

Most adults do not want to play with 12 or under on ‘mature games’, and at times, ruins the online gaming experience.

remove the limit of the number of friends that can be added on the friends list

One of the things I’ve been looking forward to is Live Anywhere, or Live on Vista and Windows Mobile. But after looking at the Live demos on Vista from CES it looks like Live won’t exist within Vista itself but only in games that are Live enabled, this I think is a big oversight.

One of the great things with Live on the 360 is it’s everywhere, always in the background and always availble. Surely this should be the same in Vista, while it will look different it should always be there.

Also how about intergrating Live Messenger and Mail into Xbox/Vista Live?

Amnios.

I’d like to see the ability to set alerts. The little pop-up things that tell you when a file has downloaded or a friend is online.

7:00 AM – Time to go to work!

3:00 PM – Dentist appointment!

I’ll tell you what I don’t want to see… Micro-transactions. Nothing will devalue Live faster than hundreds of micro-transactions on games. It will make people stop buying titles "because what’s the point? After I buy it they’re just going to ask me to buy more…"

‘We would’ve never done a console if it was just for gaming’ – who was it at Microsoft who said that again?

You guys need to deliver something Microsoft isn’t expected to do. (Which is the ‘grab all your money and run’ technique)

Integrate with other Microsoft devices that I’m not going to buy? Don’t care…

Integrate with MSN? Why would I want my boss knowing I’m playing on my Xbox during my break? Again, don’t care.

Turning the Xbox 360 into a ‘media center’ where I can buy video and music? Again, completely useless.

Releasing an xbox live arcade game every week as promised several times? Interested.

A bigger better video/demo system for games? Very interested.

The problem at the moment is that you can get hundreds of pictures and 5-6 different video’s of games online that Xbox Marketplace only delivers 1-2 videos on. When are they coming out? No clue.. the marketplace doesn’t say.

A simple idea I think. I’d like a reminder/diary system they works on any device i’m logged into. This would be a ‘dinner saver’ if at least implemented on the 360 – how many dinners have i burnt whilst playing because i’d forgotten the time or didn’t hear the oven timer bleep! Just a simple pop up message same as when someone comes online.

The option to set download times. My ISP has a download limit during 4pm to 12am. I’d like to have a system that stops the 360 downloading during these times.

1920×1080 over vga… that works

A headset that works.

A call centre that is familiar with the product

Fixing 50/60Hz PAL issues – wrong from day 1 and still wrong.

What about a free xbox live online gameing 1st !That is just making Live dumb that u have to pay to play on online isnt it enough that i bought the xbox360 and games some ppl just dont have money to even buy this card or some countries dosent even sell them at all !

Come on…1st Free xbox live online gameing then the future of live becuse if xbox live online gameing wont be free…i kinda dont want to see live anywhere !

I would like to see the ability for me to create a custom sound track and play it while I am playing an online game and have everybody be able to hear it from their TV/receiver while still allowing communication via the headset. This should only be a host option, so if I am hosting a Gears of War match, people can hear my custom sound track versus the in-game music.

Later,

Alex

I want to be able to create my own themes on Xbox.com and have them automatically transferred to my 360.

Also, it would be nice to be able to share themes amongst other gamers.

I would like a tighter integration with MSN messenger, for instance, if im signed into my 360 I want to be able to choose if my presence should be displayed in MSN.

Some kind of team/clan functionality would be nice.

For instance: a team/clan-flap that displays ranking in the clan. A private messageboard. Current events/news regarding the team/clan.

Google Earth, TerraServer or whatever the Microsoft equivalent is. I saw the Vista demo flying around using an Xbox360 controller and Terra Server. Why not have it on Xbox Live on our huge tv sets? How cool would that be?

You might have already implemented this in Live Anywhere, but here it Goes…

With games that include cross platform multiplayer, you should have it include at least 6 different options to find matches. They should be "Quick Match", "Ranked Match", "Player Match", "Cross Quick Match, "Cross Ranked Match" and "Cross Player Match". Basically the first set of options find games that just include players on the platform that your playing (Xbox 360 or PC), and the second set of options find matches where players can be on both Platforms. I would like this option mainly because I won’t nessecarily want to play against PC players all the time and I’m sure PC gamers won’t want to play against console players all the time.

Thanks for your time

- I need to know the name of the game in my tray….. not just "PLAY GAME".. how about "PLAY SAINTS ROW" instead.

- Downloadable Levels rather than costume add ons…..

- Video marketplace in Australia.

- Less Lag with online gaming, by default Aussie gamers end up with laggy connections to the US.

#2

Is MS interested in giving us Internet Browsing? Do we want it? What dangers would there be for are little white box if it was opened up to the Internet?

I’ve read all sorts of debate about the dangers so my idea is in the form of a question.

Would it be possible for my 360 to request an Internet page through MS, have them pull it and check it for the bad stuff and then send it to us?

If yes, I can imagine that it would or atleast seem to take a very long time. Unless you had the left 2/3rds of your screen as a browser and the right 1/3rd cut into two stacked boxes each displaying there own IPTV channel.

Would you even notice that a page that would take 5 seconds to load on your PC has just taken 30 on your 360?

Being able to store game saves online would be very nice.

Streaming radio would be nice – especially for driving games.

‘Demo’ or Unlocked games not going in the Played Games list.

Halo2′s matchmaking everywhere please. It wipes the floor with Lost Planets matchmaking, for an example. This is my #1 beef at the moment. I had expected, after H2 that all games would go with similar systems but no!

I only have one thing to add.The ability to change the .net passport attached to your gamertag will be absolutely paramount once live anywhere gets rolling.Because if anyone here is like me then they more than likely have multiple accounts for , messenger , hotmail , xbox live , etc.If I have to make a new account to have integration, it isn’t going to fly.If this is too hard to do (which it’s not) then at least make it so that when I make a new account on my 360 I can transfer my achievements to it.Because getting all of my gamerscore back will not make me a hapy gamer.

Main one for me is to end the annual charge for Xbox Live, I’m getting more and more dillusional for it’s fee.

I wouldn’t mind if it was for MS to host dedicated servers to avoid lag in games or to have more free content like DLC Etc. but we’re getting less and less with that.   The fact the PS3 and Wii’s online services are free are the only thing left they have over you.

I’d also like to see if someone sends you a private message, a small part of it appears on the pop up notift screen.

Oh and also, bring video marketplace and xbox live diamond to Canada.You don’t have to pay full price for quiznos.Why should we?

*****A WebBrowser*****

Its what i call a big feature

And also some way to delete played games!

Xbox Live camera with built-in microphone!

So that I can video-chat to my relatives (who wouldn’t wear the headset)

A Web browser wooooo!

Keeping in touch with your games with live – Persistant games that allow you to connect to them via the 360 or PC at home but also allow you some interactivity on a mobile device. For example a MMORPG that is played mainly on the 360 but allows you to browse the lore and improve your craft skills on a mobile device when your not on the 360.

Using the Gamerscore as a currency – Perhaps literally entitling you to discounts on the market place. Or perhaps unlocking content within a game or giving you free themes and/or gamer pics when you hit a certain mark.

This doesn’t have anything to do with Live, but I would love it if I could plug in a USB drive and play the videos and music on that drive.

Also, why not allow me to save on to the USB drive?

Also (Also), I want complete integration with every microsoft service.If I buy a song on urge connect it to my gamertag.If someone posts on my live space, let me know.If my zune on my wifi network needs charging let me know.If someone on my messenger contact list signs in let me know.And because some people will still use the integrated service make a name for casual accounts other than gamertags, like usertags or something.And a web browser, bigger HDD.Basically I want everyhting I do in my life to be associated with live in some way.If i log on to my school network show it on live.If im driving with my smartphone show it on live.

Note:I’ll probably have 5 more ideas in a couple seconds so youll hear more from me later.

email: pilsbury847@yahoo.ca <– why I need a new gamertag.

@ pod, you already can do that.

I think that there are 2 issues that need to be addressed:

1. The lack of storage

2. Not being able to play the content that we want.  

Firstly, I don’t want to buy another Xbox hard disk!

Also, I have data on other devices e.g. USB flash disks, USB Hard Drives and Network shares on our Windows PC’s.  I’d like to be able to access the data on these devices i.e. the Xbox should be compatible with the *popular* file formats – e.g. DivX, XviD, Quicktime, H.264, etc.

* IRC & MSN chat

* A browser like the other consoles (to check gameFAQs, xbox forums, etc) at least own trusted sites like spaces, xbox.com, live.com, msn.com, hotmail, stocks, weather..

* rss & popcast reader

* pop3 reader

* agenda -> even future game invites (saw that at nelsons blog) – new games – local events – sync with outlook 2007 – birthays of your friendslist auto added

* a tool to show photoalbums from flicker, pixagogo, etc

* old xbox games marketplace (many are less in size then a demo now)

* xbox dashboard achievements (like member for 1 year = 50 ach. points, xbox forum cul 5 = 10 ach. points)

* more then 100 friends (after 5 years playing i have many more friends)

* usb harddrive compatible (up to 300 gb storage for downloads except savegames)

* see title of what game/dvd is inserted next to the eject button.

okay, so this is what didnt come through earlier – I’m going to post in parts…

Okay, so I’m all for what a lot of others have already mentioned ie clans, blah, blah.

Here are some of my thoughts – a couple have been mentioned once or twice, so please feel free to take this as me agreeing with you!

* Forums – bring a forums interface to the Xbox, whether it be for Clans, or for the official forums… but people can type on there, and we could look up help, without needing to race to the PC.

* YouTube/Soapbox/etc – give me a way to bring streaming video apps down to the console.  I’m guessing when people say that they want a browser it would be for this kind of purpose.

* Podcasts/Videocasts – the ability to download C9, on10 or other video casts to my Xbox would be great.  Same for podcasts that I subscribe to.

* Flickr/etc – the ability to do the photo displays off a Flickr feed would be fantastic.

* RSS – whether it be me watching RSS through a technical blog, subscribing to the flickr feed for photos, for my podcasts, whatever.

* Shared Profile – open up the Gamertag photos to user submitted pictures for christsakes.  It’d be like if you only allowed Meegos as your Windows Live Messenger photo.

I want the same photo, the same profile between my devices.

* Email – a guy mentioned it above but I’d be inclined to agree.  Although I’d say more of integrating as a front-end to an email program on my network.  IE such as Live Mail hosted on a Windows Home Server, with the messaging being passed between that and my Xbox as just a visual front end.

Hi, yeah i would like to see the live market place fully in the uk, ie tv shows, films etc for download.

Full xbox live on my vista pc so i can play on the pc with my xbox mates etc.

live tv on the xbox via ie or usb tvcard maybe?

larger hard disk

full game downloads, so you dont have to go to the shops to buy them, maybe at a discount price due there being no media to buy etc

wireless keyboard and mouse for games(for us fps freaks)

* Mandatory clan support, integrated into the Dashboard. I don’t personally enjoy clan play, but I’m sick of having to play against a clan group anytime I join a public match. They need their own match sets so that they can play against other clans.

* Dedicated Server support. Not just the way that R6: Vegas does it either, I mean real dedicated server support. Being able to rent server hardware and run it off of that instead of trying to run it off a home connection on your own 360. This is the one thing that has PC multiplayer trumping Live, and it is a very big deal.

* USB storage device support.

As mentioned by a few folks, I’d love to see a unified friends list between messenger and live friends.

I’d also like to see the ability to tag friends with categories so I can put all my friends from my gaming community in one bucket, my ‘real life’ friends in another bucket and passing acquaintances in another bucket. Of course these are just my categories, I’d like to think the system would be more general allowing people to create their own categories to organise their own friends list (i.e. how messenger does it).

Hi,

I think you should add a "free games" download zone to XBOX Live for XNA based games developed by small game developers, hobbyists or for organisations who whish to distribute single player (no online play) XNA games for free.

I think it would create a sound game development community for small non-sophisticated, but innovative games.

A kind of: Develop your own game and distribute it through "Your games community" on XBOX Live.

/Bo

WINDOWS HOME SERVER.

God, this could be so fantastic.

I’ve written a post here – http://www.madprops.org/cs/blogs/crucible/archive/2007/01/12/Where-I-think-Windows-Home-Server-could-lead_2E002E002E00_.aspx

This basically talks about Windows Home Server and the idea that I’ve heard in the videos of Home Automation.

My idea being that if the Home Automation software was being run as a service on your Windows Home Server then your PC or your Xbox or a mobile device could be the front end.

The same goes for email, for RSS, for endless cases.  It’s more the idea of the thin-client architecture which comes into vogue now and then but I think that Windows Home Server is the perfect opportunity to get some test cases like this up and going.

Damn, I’d love to be able to change the temperature in my house from a pocketpc or my xbox or something

Again, I have no idea if XNA could accomplish this, but I’m betting on it.

More dedicated servers. if you play multiplayer on a pc there are always free dedicated servers and also the option to rent them if u so wish. Dont see why this wouldnt be possibe on xbl.

Open up the Xbox Notifications to a Windows API.

I talked about it here: http://www.madprops.org/cs/blogs/crucible/archive/2007/01/12/XBox-360-Notification-API.aspx

Basically the thought being that we could get some plugins working on programs such as skype, email, home automation, messenger, downloads, etc so that we get notified on our Xbox that an event has occured.

I don’t think it’s impossible.

Dedicated Servers in local countries.  It doesn’t have to be a tonne of them to handle the load of every online multiplayer session, just say 1-2 per popular game per region.

Being in Australia, more often than not I get stuck on a American hosted games, and it just isn’t fair.

(I posted this six hours ago but it seems to have failed somehow. So here goes once more.)

XBOX LIVE ARCADE 3D LOBBY

The name “Xbox Live Arcade” carries two connotations which it currently, in my estimation, fails to meet. “Live” and “arcade”. It does not feel “live” except whenever one goes through the trouble, per game, of setting up a multiplayer experience. All other online functions are stagnant and may as well be performed offline.

The “arcade” portion of the phrase is the component which hints at an exciting possibility. What if “Xbox Live Arcade” was, optionally, a first- or third-person rendering of a three-dimensional traditional arcade, wherein one can move about, check out Ms. Pac-Man or Time Pilot cabinets (being played, or in attract mode awaiting one’s interaction) or sofa areas hosting games of Uno, or what have you. One could interact with other Live Arcade avatars, challenge them to multiplayer games, watch them play while waiting turns. The background would be a din of arcade noise, replete with the sounds of Xbox Live Arcade offerings. Avatars could be custom-designed, perhaps including Live Vision-captured faces.

This is an opportunity which I think was missed, but which it is still possible, I think, to act upon. It would give Xbox Live Arcade, and perhaps the whole 360 experience, a very positive sense of social interactivity – something which is currently only possible within the specific confines of a given game, leaving the rest of the experience lifeless and dull.

(If this doesn’t get me a job offer from MS I really will be expecting a VIP tour and an open invitation to share an other ideas I might have

#3- Tournaments

I suppose you might need to have separate "Live" servers for this. The proper stat tracking, leaderboards, and tournament boards might rely on it.

New games would have the Ranked, Player, and Custom Matches as usual but also include a Tournament option.

This would match you up with similiarly ranked teams & opponents over the course of "x" amount of games that the "Live" server would set up. Let’s say that x=minimum of 1 hour of play. Winners would receive Achievements and Leaderboard standings.

Ok. Here’s where my new job comes along.

To join a friendly "x" tournament of Halo 3 it will costs you $2. A "y" (y= 10 hours of play over days) tourny could be $10.

Let’s say that 10,000 Halo 3 players pay $2 in a day. That’s $600,000 that MS would receive in a month for one game. They pay Bungie say $200,000 in royalties (yes, they own Bungie but paperwork must exist).

When you have paid for and have played your tournaments (important to understand this) your transaction with MS is done. You have paid for their servers to host big tournaments for you and nothing else. No prize. NO GAMBLING. Yet…

Every month MS then INVITES, at NO charge, the top ranked tournament players to GET PAID TO PLAY.

Take Halo 3 again. MS could mix up the match types but the breakdown could be this simple-

Single Player (you against everyone)- $2000 prize

Small team (4-on-4)- $4000 prize

Big Team (8-on-8)- $8000 prize

These amounts could be drastically altered or many such tournaments could be held in a month because if you remember-

$2 x 10,000= $600,000 per month

$600,000 (MS) – $200,000 (Bungie)= $400,000 (MS)

$400,000 (MS) – $50,000 (Prizes)= $350,000 (MS)

- for one game, for one month.

I’m sure that for a company like MS this is not a huge amount of money yet it more than pays for itself, is another way to play and very importantly this would offer developers another source of income and incentive to add compelling adverserial multiplayer.

(MS please send all job offers or invitations to the MS campus to gamertag: AngriBuddhist. Thanks;)    

Live is picking up a nasty reputation where I live for being unfair with credit handling. You can enter a credit card as easily as entering your name, you just try removing it. It is impossible. I moved house and no longer wanted to use credit cards, but pre pay. I could not remove the card! I was told (email) that MS had tried to debit my card whilst moving and it had been rejected (as it would, the address details were no longer valid). Get this; they then refused to let me add gamer points from a card until I entered a new cedit card first. I had to start a new account, which brings me to my second gripe, all the paid for content sitting right there on my 360 was no longer accessable from the new account. This is pretty appalling stuff. Please; A. allow easy removal of credit cards and B. allow me to access my content from my 360 regardless of the gamer tag. it is MY 360, not the gamer tags, ok?

Okay and now thats actually finally gone through (last three posts were the post I tried to get through 6 hrs ago)…

Heres an idea but it may seem a little… well its a little basic… but it would be the best way to promote Xbox Live I think.

You know how Microsoft is currently doing the Vanishing Point game?

Well maybe you could do a Live Everywhere game that traverses the xbox, pc, wap pages or whatever for mobile… I dont know.. trivia, an actual free video game on all three platforms that needs to be played to get certain clues, etc?

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Maybe Sidebar gadgets could show up all over the place too? hmm…

1.  I want to like XBLA, but none of the games appeal to me much.  I’d really like to see MORE games on here and I’d like them to be higher quality.  It would be great if I could buy digital versions of Xbox games on here.  I think the 50MB limit is silly and that it should be eschewed completely and not just on a limited basis.  

2.  The service is pretty great, but I’d like to see it simply be more stable.  I barely ever get disconnected from online games on my PC, but I have frequent problems with Xbox Live games.  Thus I’d like to see even more support for developers on getting their online service working good (the many beta tests are excellent, btw).  The same goes for voice-chat.  I know that our $50/year only goes so far, but I don’t understand why the integrity of the existing features is so spotty.  Surely the revenue from increased game sales, advertisement, and pay downloads in addition to our subscriptions should be good enough that this works at least as well as many free PC programs?

Anyway, I’m loving the service as it is, and I’m happy with the improvements already made.  I’d just like to see XBLA become more compelling and have the existing connectivity issues resolved.

@pilsbury847 – When I say videos. I really mean other codecs. Not just WMV. I can’t remember the last time I downloaded a WMV.

Also – for the Zune.  I’d like to be able to stream any music off my HDD wirelessly if I am in my home.  Even if it isn’t on my small Zune HDD.

This would make it a real iPod Killer – especially if I had some enumeration/playlists/control.

My second two went through but the first is missing so…

#1- Gifting

Opening up “Live” to the transferring of MS Points would probably lead to gambling and all sorts of seedy Vision enabled umm…encounters so how bout “Gifting” instead?

I go to the Marketplace. Into XBLA. Choose Geometry Wars. My Options are- Download Demo, Purchase Full Game, and Purchase Full Game as Gift. I choose the last. My friends list pops up. I choose a name. They receive a message- “AngriBuddhist has sent you Geometry Wars. Do you Accept?”. They respond “Yes”. Then their 360 begins to download it while my account is billed.

If they respond “No” then no download happens and I am not billed.

I think this could easily be ready by what? The Spring Update?

-  A web browser would be great for the 360.  Obviously, being Microsoft brand, they’d go with a modified version of IE, but I’d love seeing Firefox available for my 360.

-  Multiple video/private chat capability.  I’d like to be able to talk to more than one person in private chat.  I’d love to be able to video chat with more than one person, but it’s not really high on the priority list.

- Blade opacity.  Okay, so I can add my own wallpapers to my dashboard, but what good is an awesome wallpaper if I have a hard time seeing it?  It’d be great to be able to adjust the opacity of the blades to better accomodate the wallpaper as well as in case I’m watching a movie and someone sends me a message/invite/etc.

- Active Downloads on the main blade.  It’s trite, but it’d be easier to put the Active Downloads on either the main blade or on the Guide Blade instead of having to go into Xbox Live Marketplace to find it.

- Folder Viewing.  When it comes to streaming video via WMP11, I see you can select various folders to share.  It’d be awesome to segregate media by folders, rather than scrolling through all shared media to find that one video I wanted to watch.

How about weekend tournaments, starting friday night leading to the finales on sunday, you can get a place in the tournament during the week beforehand, the final rounds could then be viewed by everybody that owns the game (a la gotham tv in PGR 3) i would certainely be interested in something like this.

you wouldn’t necesseraly need a price for the winner, maybe an achievement or something like that.

Xbox live has the best Matchmaking server among all the consoles and PC’s for that matter as well. But i would like to see in the long term some sort of even better standard for Xbox live matchmaking. Something like how Halo 2 works. For a ranked match you select the type you want to play and then XBL matches you up with other people and you play the match. You should also be able to join ranked matches with your friends unless there is a good reason to prevent this. Unranked games should also work in the same was as the Halo 2 online service only you should also be able to set up your game so that any one can join it not just your friends.

I dont know if me postinhg this will make a difference but i think it would be a good idea for You guys to develop some kind of set up like this and send it to all Xbox 360 game developers as part of the 360 dev kit.

Hope this dosent sound like a stab at XBL because it not I live XBL but i am just posting ways to make it better.

GT: sarge mat

huge Xbox/360 fan.

who really cares .. the stuff we really want wont happen or it will cost to much *** you microsoft

Equinox NL said "You wouldn’t necessarily need a prize for the winner…"

Well think about it this way. The prizes would draw attention. They could be money or trips or cars or crazy things. Imagine MS teaming up with Ferrari for a grand prize. The prizes and fanfare would be advertisements for the "Tournaments" specifically and "Live" in general.

1) Instant Messenger integration.

2) Slideshow/random backrounds on the dash

3) Sort out some video download rights to the UK!

4) Dual video output so I can watch/listen to content on my 2nd TV in another room.

Ok I think alot of my suggestions you guys have used in the past (at least I think so), so anyways here are the big things I will list.

in 1 year I would like to see:

Xbox Guide UI:

Faster guide windows (ability to invite people to your game faster without affecting current gameplay)

Freezeproof UI (the guide freezes my system so often, just make the system detect a crash and fix itself)

Organize my friends list easier (group with labels such as “Rainbox Six Clan Members”)

An all you can download video service (14.95 watch as many as you want HD and SD, 9.99 SD unlimited only).

A portible Xbox Live Arcade Device, Phone, And Zune

the “Xbox Media (Zune) Phone”.

Support for HD Audio Codecs (more than just 5.1 in games) and use of HD Audio in Games.

The ability to listen to internet radio via your 360 during games.

The ability to stream Video, Audio, and Photo RSS from the Internet

The ability to use your 360 gamertag on your PC live at the same time without having to buy a second account (or a discount price for a PC-only addon Live tag).

Store Live Content on your PC (store everything 1 place) stream it to your 360 (so basically your arcade games can all be stored on your PC).

Backup your 360 HDD to your PC

Video Messages between friends.

A Flickr’esque feed created by your 360 attached your gamer profile.

A way for you to kick people from your game even in games that don’t allow it (by filling out a report player and then the guide kicks them).

User created content, an Ebay Store like marketplace where gamers set up stores (for a monthly fee) and sell content, or non content such as help to beat a boss or Halo tips.

Make game publishers take away the Xbox Live logo on the game if it only has Downloadable Content, Leaderboards and is Live Aware, make it so only games that have a Multiplayer Online aspect have a live label on the game.

Let users rate premium marketplace content, when I buy stuff I think I should be able to give it a 1 to 5 star rating to let others know if I think it is worth the price.

Put vision cam support into every multiplayer arcade game released.

Put a web browser onto the 360 and allow me to bookmark sites via my PC for the 360.

Let me read RSS text sites (and blogs) on my 360.

Allow me to have more than one person in a private chat (should be at least 4 people, 8 ideal).

Allow more people in a private video chat (4-6 would be nice).

Put game reviews on the 360, allow me to read the reviews for games that are coming out by pro editors, allow me to pre-order games at my local EB via my 360.

Buy a game once, play everywhere.

Keyboard for the Xbox. No way we will ever do chit-chat on msn with that onscreenkeyboard. youre pushing it as a computer too, so it makes sense. It would also allow for World of warcraft to be released, at least once you get done with that bigger harddrive, which would kick ass.

I’d go so far as to say World of warcraft requiring a keyboard is reason enough for you to make it. There are wow players all over the place.

From playing Rainbox six reacently, on eof the achievements was to complete the game co-op splitscreen, so i went round to my friends who also has the game and wants the achievement and realised im not gonna get it i cant log in to this consoile with my gamertag.

1. We should be able to log into other peoples machines via xbox live with our gamertags and have it hld some stats that are stored online or update our cacchievements even when we get them with friends.

2. have the friends list groupable, i have 12 or so actuall friends on live that i actually know then i have lots of people who have given frioend requests that i play with some times if their on a certain game, id like to group these friends so i know who is from where

* Ability to change DL order on the download list.

* Set transparency on blades.

* Mac support for media center!

* Wider video codec support.

* Ability to mute (both ways) individual players in-game.

- I want to see any thoughts of a web browser scrapped. I have a PC, thats what it’s for.

- Integration of XBLive friends list to Messenger, even if it only allows the functions available via the 360, it’d be better than the oh so fickle XBList.

- A free copy of Media Center for everyone who buys a 360, or in future, a copy of Vista with Media Center in it.

- Divx, Xvid etc support, this by far is the biggest complaint I have about the 360.

- Ability to at least transfer files downloaded via Marketplace to other Live devices, attached to my Live account. I realise this could be difficult with PC’s, but a Zune? Easy. For PC simply make it that the account must be signed in for it to run… ?

- For world wide release dates to actually be world wide! I had to wait a good few months after the USA release to get my 360, and the same is the case for the Zune. I’ve since told the Zune where to go…

- Adding to the last point, some form of respect for countries outside the USA. Australia gets 10 people in the Halo 3 beta… 10! How the hell is there gonna be a fair evaluation of the trans ocean lag with only 10 people for the thousands of US players to choose from?

I could go on, but for the life of me my mind is going too fast for me to comprehend what else I could ask for.

I didn’t read everything that’s been posted, but here are the things I want to see in the (near) future:

- previews for all content on Marketplace

- private chat with up to 8 people at a time, but not if those people are playing in the same ranked match or the same team-based match in a game.

- allow the mod community to migrate to the 360 so we can have the same cool user-made maps as PC gamers

- let me make my own desktop themes on my PC and then upload to my private spot on the Marketplace where only I can download it.

- force developers to make it possible for hosts to block anyone playing on a different system, so if a host on the PC doesn’t want to play with 360 owners he can block them.

- let me set a person I’ve played with as an "avoided player" without messing up their rep if I don’t want to give a reason for avoiding that person. Often I just don’t enjoy playing with someone and want to prevent Live from putting us together in a match again, but don’t set that person as an avoided player because I’d have to give a false reason.

Ross Graham (Deap360) said:  

"From playing Rainbox six reacently, on eof the achievements was to complete the game co-op splitscreen, so i went round to my friends who also has the game and wants the achievement and realised im not gonna get it i cant log in to this consoile with my gamertag"

Those achievements have incorrect descriptions. You unlock them by playing the terrorist hunt in single player, not split-screen.

Also, if you just recover your gamertag on his console (or he recovers his on yours) you can sign in both accounts at the same time (one per connected controller) and you can play split-screen without any problems.

- Allow users to stream more content off their PCs, not necessarily the ‘illegal use’ formats, but AAC would be nice.

- Further standardise the in-game lobbies. You’ve done a great job standardising most of live’s features, but go all the way and make high standard lobby systems mandatory.

- When I get an invite to a game, let me see who all is playing that game, which map they’re on, and how long they’ve been playing.

- MSN Messenger integration would be fantastic.

- More thorough QA testing. No risk of games like Dead Rising using critical text that can’t be read on an SDTV. Assault heroes where online co-op doesn’t work for many people.

- Allow the user to create their own themes (different pictures for each panel) and save them. Distribution would be nice but not likely due to your business model.

- Clean the dash, remove the in-house advertising.

- Enable podcast support.

- More notification options, let me disable notifications of some people coming online, while keeping my close friends pop-ups.

- Change the DRM on xbox live content, so when I change my xbox due to fault, I don’t have to spend a month to get a points refund, and then have to purchase on a new silver account.

- A lot of people don’t want to play with strangers, make it easier for groups of friends to join the same match.

imaginedbug said:

Those achievements have incorrect descriptions. You unlock them by playing the terrorist hunt in single player, not split-screen.

Also, if you just recover your gamertag on his console (or he recovers his on yours) you can sign in both accounts at the same time (one per connected controller) and you can play split-screen without any problems.

…………………………………….

Well you need to complete the terrorist hunt missions, either way i would stioll like to go to my mates hoiuse and log in as me so things like my player kill count increase.

i have tred the recover gamertag part but i allways stop due to the worrying message about loosing save games.

either way you cant properly log in to someone elses xbox and i’l bet there are thousands of people out there who would like this feature.

also please dont moderate other peoples questions this is a place to offer sugestions openly, nobody is here to say thats a bad idea, i dont tell you your ideais wrong or bad, just leave it be and the 360 team will pick up what they think is good…..

Please remove, or give us the ability to remove, XBLA demo titles from our Xbox Live Profiles.

Being able to have ones’ gamercard on the sidebar in windows vista.

I would like to have MSN Messenger and a browser on my Xbox 360..

I guess it may seem a small matter and not directly related to Live, but I and numerous others have frequently raised the matter of allowing full button mapping.

some gae developers do it , others do not , for left handed players it makes for confusing play , as for some games you can play in a comfortable fashion whilst others you need to revert to a right handed style of play.

A dashboard facility to allow full button mapping independant of the game would be fantastic.

Extend the Movie/TV download service into the UK (and elsewhere).  The current system in the UK is sparse, badly organised and pales compared to what the US gets.

Other than that, by all means, unify the Live system through devices – give us arcade games on our Windows PDAs, etc – but make sure you don’t exclude people.  What I’m saying is, Xbox Live is great and works well because everybody has near enough the same hardware, and everyone has the same dash software.  

I’m a bit concerned that we’ll end up in a PC situation here, with everybody on different devices, using different hardware, so unifying the experience in way that doesn’t force upgrades or exclude features must be a priority.

This is Xbox Live, not Windows Live or PDA live.  By all means, give us more ways to view our stuff, but I’m not convinced that extending the Xbox Live brand into other devices is the way forward.  But feel free to prove me wrong.

TheDarkchild said:  

"Being able to have ones’ gamercard on the sidebar in windows vista."

There’s already a gadget or two that do that, simply go to the gadgets website.

imaginedbug said-

-I want to see any thoughts of a web browser scrapped. I have a PC, thats what it’s for.

- Divx, Xvid etc support, this by far is the biggest complaint I have about the 360.

Doesn’t your PC support these codecs? Isn’t that what it’s for?

- Ability to at least transfer files downloaded via Marketplace to other Live devices, attached to my Live account. I realise this could be difficult with PC’s, but a Zune? Easy. For PC simply make it that the account must be signed in for it to run… ?

Besides the storage space limitations why would you want your Marketplace content on your PC? That is not what your PC is for.

Now, my point isn’t to argue with you but there are many things just listed here that are definately cross over capabilities that different people would like for the way they use their PC or 360. I personally would love for MS to find a SAFE way to offer a competent browser for my 360 even though that has been a function for my PC. Never before has a console been a media streaming device yet you obviously would like features that would enhance the 360′s abilities to be one. Some people could care less and will never use it for such a purpose yet they are not suggesting that MS scraps those features in favor of others that they care about.

Hmm I’ll come up with a few things…

Music also downhloadable from Xbox live, worldwide (!!!) along with the video marketplace.

"Tell your friend" & "Rate this download" for EVERYTHING.

Extended user profiles (like Live Spaces but on the 360)

Maybe a browser (should work well with family settings too, so no bad publicity about it)

Rep system with comments & more details

View pictures & hear voice messages on xbox.com

*** XBLA Demos NOT displayed in gamer card or achievements ***

- ORDER FRIENDS IN GROUPS & ADD CUSTOM NICKS (like in Messenger Plus)

Theme/picture sharing over Xbox Live (with "spaces"?)

Preview all gamer pics/themes on Marketplace

Change order of downloads

Integration with Live Messenger (I think it’s coming anyway though, right?) with seperate list

- Xbox Chat supporting more than two people

- Web Browser

- Flag Options – "Please Invite", "Do not Invite", etc.

- More languages on Xbox360 (portuguese from portugal )

- Clan options

- you should be able to "rename" the entries in your friends list, so i have the choice of leaving it at their gamertag, or changing it to their name.

- an add-in for windows live messenger to list my xbox live friends as well, and allow me to see what they’re upto and msg them.

- multiple friend private chat – sometimes you need to private chat with more than 1 person…

- stop including the demos and XBLA trial games in of the "total games" played stuff under player info. IMO this should only be full games.

- give the ability to copy your gamercard to a memory unit, not move it.

- 4 way video chat

- it would be fantastic if there was an option to get the console to flash it’s ring of light when it is powered down if you receive a message (like wii’s disk slot)

- different (and customisable) sounds for different types of notification – ie a different sound for a message from when a friend comes online.

Switching out the User Interface

As much as I like the blades on the Xbox 360 my Little Girl and Wife they seem to have trouble navigating it and as I have my system start to the UI on startup they’re put off using the 360 while im not around.

so,

My suggestion is to offer maybe different UI setups that could be available as downloads from  the marketplace (we could be charged for these) that are specifically, Child/wife/aunt/nan Friendly/Basic and have very basic start game/Live arcade function/big button in the middle of the screen MAKE IT OBVIOUS!

In the future maybe have a design a UI program on the Pc that offers customisation options these could be basic templates that are then coloured and animated how you want them to be and the results can somehow be exported from pc to 360 and maybe shared across multiple platforms that are opperating live and this becomes YOUR UI! Live will allow this to follow you anywhere.

Maybe share your UI with your friends over Live.

Implementation idea, have it linked to a specific controller so that the system knows witch UI to use when that controller is turned on.

There are probably all sorts of issues surrounding this but I think we are the customisation generation.

Loving the 360

I did not read through all 450+ comments, so some of these may have been mentioned already.

In the end "Live" should be a single, unified service crossing all of Microsoft’s product lines:

- There should be a central Marketplace catering for all options with an improved layout and search functions (notifications for content that interests the user also).

- Virtual storage of selected content frpm your Xbox and PC, allowing synchronisation, no matter where you sign in.

- A similar UI between all platforms to make the experience more user friendly.

- Seamless transitions between services that share assets.

To get to that stage:

- Merge the Xbox Live friend’s list with your Messenger and .NET passport to share a single, synchronised contact database. When a friend request is sent across either service, offer the option to send a request from the other platform (there would be instances where you want someone to be on as an Xbox friend only for example). This will also allow grouping of contacts and a "clan" category

- A single website per account as a "My Page". Either expand upon Spaces (tedious with alot of issues to get around) or build upon the Live brand by pulling in assets. There are too many sites so far. One place for all of your community offerings, public and private. This should contain Spaces, Xbox.com (My Xbox) and other Live services like what has started with the Live Ideas site.

- Allow communication between services. Xbox voice chat to VoIP via Messenger, maybe even with the option of video. Also enabling your account to pick up Xbox messages via your tied e-mail account, and vice versa (web browser not required).

- For gaming, make the Halo matchmaking system a standard across Vista and Xbox. We all know its the best to date.

Specifically for Xbox:

- Multiple person voice chat within the Dashboard (obviously, network allowances make this currently not possible through the games),

- Allow the option to filter when viewing played games lists and display the selected filter when others view your list.

- Privacy settings permitting, let your friends see who else is on your Xbox Live friend’s list.

- Give the gamerscore a purpose. For example, something like what Nintendo do with their Stars.

- When matchmaking, allow the gamer to fliter by age and region.

- A wireless keyboard built with the noncompatible keys removed, for use specifically with the console (game integration optional).

- The ability to play your arcade games when an internet connection is not available (they change back to the locked version for some reason).

Running out of steam now. Thats all i can think of at the moment. Hope its of use.

Kit

1) Halo 2 Matchmaking System as part of core Xbox Live Code

2) Return of group chat rooms

3) An option for a larger friends list (perhaps a small fee)

There’s a lot of awesome idea these are the ones I really like, in no particular order:

1. Groups & Clan support      

2. The ability to select regions for matchmaking, US lags to much.

3. Premium & Episodic content on Arcade.

4. Live radiostreams sounds like a Fab idea. (see

5. Wireless keyboard for typing would also be great

6. I expect Live Messenger integration is planned, only a matter of time?

7. Presence settings like MSN and to disable pop-ups during video playback.

8. Better Gold love. Why do you need gold to play GoW when it’s played Peer to Peer? And we’re probably go to have to pay even more for MMO’s like Huxley and Shadowrun aren’t we?

9. Forget bigger Harddrives and Zune integration, I want Home Server NOOOOWW!!!! heh heh

10. Web Browser definitely!

"So I’m curious. What exactly would you/do you do with a web browser on a console?"

for one it means I can adjust my ADSL router settings from my couch I don’t have to walk upstairs (In South Africa you need two ADSL accounts, one shaped for local traffic and one for international)

I can also troll news and comics while I’m waiting for marketplace downloads or in lobbies. Have you seen Wiicade or sofatube? That alone would be reason enough for a web browser.

11. More Kids Games and Live vision motion type games.

If 360 owners are typically 18-35, it means there’s a heck of a lot of us with young kids (Mines 3) who want to play. So just something simple and non violent.

12. A USB console laplink cable and 360 drivers for the Wiimote

Much as last post.

1. Lets reintroduce some of the basic Live features from Xbox 1 on to Xbox360. e.g. its almost impossible to join a friends game – why should they have to invite you – they are probably busy playing so you should ALWAYS in every game just be able to join them.

2. All games have a lobby. The orginal MotoGP XBL demo and all its subsequent incarnations have had the best lobby ever

3. Introduce 3 type of games when you are the host

a) anyone can join – as it says

b) invite only – as it says

c) invite OR friends. This is the most sorely missing option. I am sick of being made to either play with everyone OR play with invites only. Why can’t I have friends  or invites.

Good to look to the future but some very very basic options still missing that we had 3 years ago on XB1.

Nintendo and Microsoft are on friendly terms right?  Why not share some of the "exclusives" titles.  I Would love to see MS and Nintendo sort out a gentlemans agreement to take a dump on the PS3.  (Its in everyones interest)

More visualisations to download for the music playback, more fades for the photo viewer.

Option in SW to move game components (cross com, scores, etc) around the screen or make them transparent to stop them burning into my plasma.

As many others..  a unified datastore not requiring a dedicated Media Centre PC.  

Cross platfrm gaming (PC/wii/Vista)

Better Xbox emulation,

The ability to sync 2 360′s (I had to buy a replacement when my firs broke then got it repaired) Prices will come down and I wont be the first or last to have 2 360′s (If I listen to music downstairs on one and the second xbox mimics it)

Offline downloading.  Turn system off puts it into standby but keeps downloading files then turns off when complete (like controller charging).

You know the problem when thinking of revolutionary things to add to the 360?  It’s hard because most of them have already been done ; )

1. If I invite a player to a Live game and they decline (maybe they’re busy on a solo game, or maybe they are about to switch the 360 off and go out) I have no way of knowing. On the old XBox, the request would remain pending until it was accepted or declined, but now you can’t see your invites you have sent out.

My suggestion is that if someone declines, then the person who sent the invite get a pop up to show that they have declined. Even better would be if the person declining could quickly select a reason from a few pre-prepared answers and click those. They could be along the lines of:

Give me five minutes

Give me fifteen minutes

I can’t right now

I haven’t got the game

Message to follow

I realise the person could send me a message saying the reason why, but when you’re in the middle of a Gears firefight it can be a little difficult to text or record a message to send.

2. If someone accepts an invite, the person inviting is notified. This might seem daft as they will appear in the lobby anyway, but at least I know they are on their way. It often takes time for players to accept the invite, eject the disc, put it in the case, get the new game, put it in the 360, close the tray, wait for the game to load…….well, you get the idea.

The worst thing about Live on the 360 is setting up a lobby, sending out some invites and then just sitting there. I have no idea if anyone is coming, whether they’ve seen my invite, whether they’ve declined it, or whether they’ve even just missed it.

3. To make game invites and messages more distiguishable from the hundred ‘Fat Bob is online’ notifications I get every hour. When you’re in the middle of a frantic Geo Wars high score run or in a tense Pro Evo online battle, then your mind tends to ignore the little pop ups as you concentrate to what’s happening on screen.

I suggest the different type of notifications use different colour, maybe make them bigger and have then play a different sound.

And even if you don’t see them, there should be a permanent reminder on screen that you have a message or an invite. The old XBox had that little envelope that would appear and stay there. A great idea in my opinion, but I know some people disliked it. So why not make it an option in the system menu, just like Boot to Dash? You can choose to have an icon left on your screen if you’re sent a message or an invite.

4. The ability to arrange ‘meets’ on the PC. Say a group of friends agree to get together at 10.00pm next Friday for some COD3 action, we could set up a ‘meet’ on the XBox.com website which would issue reminders to people say 15 minutes before the event, the reminders could be via XBox, email or Live anywhere.

We could also agree the game mode and map rotation on the XBox.com site, so that when the first person joins, the options are already set up as agreed.

Dave,

You asked why why we want an internet browser. Well it would be great being able to browse the internet on that 40" LCD I have in my home. I don’t want to hook up a media player Pc in my living room, it took years for me to persuade my wife to let me install, surround sound, HD LCD, Xbox 360 and other consoled in the living room.

You know when you have people over or you and your family just want to look at some videos on youtube or digg, or reset your router, those are the things that an internet browser would be great for, because its a pain passing a laptop around a living room.

Second I backup my windows PC, I back up my photos, my music my files regularly from my laptop and home PC. why can’t I backup my saved games, to Live.

This would be a great feature it doesn’t even have to be a save to live now feature, just a background task that when nothing else is being done that live will take a copy of your saved games back to a server in case anything happens.

I think this is more important now then ever before because the gamertag and saved games are who you are online, And i know if anything happened to my Xbox 360 or HDD I’d be very upset about starting all of my games from scratch again.

Very simple:

1) System-wide clan support — you should be able to register your clan with Xbox and your "clan list" should be right next to your friends list.  You should be able to utilize your clan in all games.

2) Trueskill matchmaking needs to be banished or modified to allow for team play in all "ranked" games.  You should be able to get with a group of friends and play games against other groups or teams.  I don’t like playing against my friends — too many hurt feeling and anger.  

2.5) If you aren’t going to fix the broken Trueskill system, then you need to force developers not to make their achievements only available in "ranked games."  Don’t allow people to search by host name for ranked games — that defeats the whole purpose!

3) The Zune needs to be able to play Live Arcade titles that I downloaded on my 360 and have wifi support.  My friends list should be integrated into the Zune service.

4) You need some type of text entry device for the controller.

What’s missing from LIVE is better matchmaking. Remember Halo2, which allowed you to join ranked/unranked matches with your friends, together as a group? Why is this not a standard feature on ALL XBOX LIVE enabled games? If it’s because it’s only supposed to be part of the Halo series of games, I think that isn’t right. You shouldn’t let Bungie have exclusive access to that kind of ‘feature’. I think all of the xbox 360′s games DESERVE to have that feature, and it should not be, as I’ve read elsewhere, only an exclusive part of the Halo "special sauce". It’s just wrong that you’re letting Bungie alone use that kind of matching feature.

Imagine this feature in Gears of War, or Lost Planet, or PGR3….this will encourage groups of friends to team together when playing online, and ensure that they’re playing on the same side (i hate it when i end up getting sided with players I don’t know).

Sorry for being so harsh about this criticism. I just remember reading somewhere (i think it’s bungie’s weekly updates) that the matchmaking style of Halo is exclusive to the halo series. I think it’s a disservice to MICRSOFT as a whole that only one game has that kind of matchmaking feature. Since player profiles and matching is standard across all games, the means of matchmaking should also be standard and more friendly to groups of players.

That is all…other than that, I’m very happy with the Xbox live service. I’d be even happier if there was official support in my country (the Philippines) but I think that isn’t going to happen soon because MS PHILIPPINES doesn’t want to support the Xbox 360 (They’re afraid of selling to consumers and prefer to sell to corporate clients….sigh….oh well, back to the grey market for me!)

XBOX 360 games ALWAYS asks for the storage device, even though there is no other storage device other than the HDD. A system update can have the HDD auto detected, and only ask when there is another storage device prompting THEN to choose.

Re: Ozy

"So I’m curious. What exactly would you/do you do with a web browser on a console? Remember that not everyone has an HDTV, so you can’t assume PC Monitor-like resolutions. Also remember the challenges of navigation, UI, and use.

So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?"

Resolution isn’t a major issue, assuming the browser is designed with this limitation in mind. Web browsing works acceptably well on the DS and many phones & PDAs, after all.

User interface isn’t a killer either, although ideally you’d want to plug in a USB mouse.

As for what I’d do with it? Well, I can only speak for myself (not the dozens of other people who have also asked for this feature), but primarily it would be useful as a convenience feature. My TV is in a different space to my PC(s). Checking my webmail, tv listings, news, GameFAQs , remote controlling my MP3 server, visiting ozymandias.com … all things that would be handy to be able to jump in and out of on the same box I’m using for games and films.

…

Looking at the bigger picture, the following steps would allow Live to stay relevant as an online gaming platform:

1. Dropping subscription fees for online play. There is no honest justification for a platform-level subs fee, and it makes the service uncompetitive.

2. Making it easier for third parties to run games from their own servers, and for external companies to run servers (Ideally, no game should have hosting a server on a user’s X360 as the only option available).

3. Interoperability with players on other platforms (as standard policy, not as an exception for FFXI).

4. Stricter regulation of what can be offered on the Marketplace vs. out of the box (curtail EA’s plans for selling games in pieces — I challenge you to find a single gamer who supports this concept).

5. Find out why no-one is willing to bring MMO games to the platform and fix it.

More focus on competition among friends/clans.

The ability to spectate your friends games.  

Better league support in games (ie. A bunch of friends all signed in as their own team to play through a season of Madden.)  Nintendo’s Tecmo had this long ago (albiet on one local hardware machine..  but it tracked mutiple players through a common season).  This should be available on a live platform now.

XBOX live support in XNA!

age filters. playing with little kids gets annoying sometimes.

keep up the great work

At the moment I would be happy with increasing the amount of friends you can have and also desperately require being able to group your friends under catagories as I would like work colleagues, forum members kept seperate etc..

Maybe even grouping them further by the game they are currently playing on live.

Being able to communicate with pc users would be good too so I could chat with family from my sofa without having to boot the pc up would be a good addition.

Playing games cross platform is a must for the future.

Maybe also being able to record games as you play them onto your pc via simple steps on the 360, so that you can record tournament matches or goals straight to your pc to share with gaming communities.

Dunno if this has been said already, but integrate MSN Messenger friends list with Live friends list, as well as video\sound\text communication.

Also, I’d be pretty cool with "all my stuff" available "in the sky", so I could stream music from my WHS to my cell phone or to my Vista PC @ work etc.

I don’t think storing "all my stuff" online is a good idea… I don’t want to give my "home movies" to MS…

Could we please have a dashboard lobby, somewhere a group of people can get togeather and decide which game they are going to play rather than having to flcik between multiple chats leaving people on hold… Can’t really be that hard… it was a feature on the Xbox.

All games released on console and PC should be interconnectable via live as standard – and users should be able to log in on either system and get the same addons and etc.

I would like for Microsoft to actually offer ‘Micro Transactions’ how do you justify some of the crazy pricing on the Marketplace? I think more people will buy if the prices are lowered increasing overall boost in marketplace purchases.

Also how about like Xbox 1 the ability to do multi chat in a private chat? Also whilst chatting I hate it when the screen dims and the controller eventually turns off if you dont press the buttons which then causes the voice chat to disconnect!

I think the interface for the friends list could be improved it looks a bit dull now, could do with a nice facelift to make it look more fresh.

When you turn on the 360 and it eventually signs into Xbox Live it takes time for it to count through how many friends are online and then eventually it tells you how many are online – this should be instant!

When playing on Xbox Live you know that you have so many friends online say for example 15 are online, and whilst playing myself and others have come across a message saying ’3 Friends Online’??? And when you check its still maybe 15 so where did it get the 3 from?? So I think Live needs to be updated or optimised in this case.

Also the one thing I hate is when you want to send a message to ALL your friends you cant select all and then de-select the ones you dont want, you have to manually select each one and not only does it all slow down it can as it has happened to me lock up, and when you scroll through the list to whom you wish to send the message to you find people in that list who are not your friends but people you have played with!

More webcam options would be good but then again a new webcame like the Microsft HD PC cam would have been better!! Talk about the HD experience and for Microsoft to give the users a cheapy cam for use on Xbox Live – it doesnt take enough light in and Microsoft should have invested in a better cam with autofocus and better zoom capabilities.

Xbox Live can be even better if the surrounding features that add onto Xbox Live are improved – take the Wireless Headset for example it has soo many problems! How could Microsoft release a Wireless Headset to use with Xbox Live that cuts out, breaks up communication and makes a lot of static noise??

This is ruining the live experience, please improve on the accessories and improve on the interface and add more options.

The other issue is when you check the marketplace you find the same thing at least 2 or 3 times under a different heading and when you have downloaded your items its not even filed correctly in a way for quick and easy access – it should be in date order or have other folders or something for easy and quick reference.

Lastly the marketplace especially for Europe (I am in the UK) is a joke, there is hardly anything decent to download music or video wise, please put some more decent content on the Marketplace! Also whats the deal with having to pay for 480p music videos??? You can download them on the net for free and its legal!!

Come on Microsoft I just read you have around 35billion dollars in reserves! Whats that money doing?! Put that money towards improving all the functions, features and put some more content on the marketplace as its getting pretty boring!

I used to play tons on Xbox Live especially on PGR2 which was awesome now I am just twiddling my thumbs as its all getting quite boring.

In the past Microsoft has hinted at decentralized storage system and/or personal accounts. A 20 Gig hard drive may be slightly more functional if one could access TERABYTES of storage for any game from anywhere.

Obviously, not a free service but one which could become very functional for accessing information from any device anywhere at any time.

In the past Microsoft has hinted at decentralized storage system and/or personal accounts. A 20 Gig hard drive may be slightly more functional if one could access TERABYTES of storage for any game from anywhere.

Obviously, not a free service but one which could become very functional for accessing information from any device anywhere at any time.

How about every 360 game being required to record your games status to you live account… i.e. it uploads information about all the cars you own and races you’ve completed in PGR to your live account, then if you sign in from a different machine your game progress is available to you… this would also stop that most horrific problem of if your 360 b0rks and you have to send the HDD back you don’t lose all your data (i’m fairly sure CoD2 did something like this)

Probably just multiple people in private chat

In fact, I have both MSN Messenger and XBox Live Gold.  It woul be neat to merge both and chat with Xbox friends as well as windows friends.

I would like to be able to read blogs and listen/watch podcasts on my xbox.  Either by using a web browser or Market Place.

I would like that my gamertag would follow me everywhere.  Xbox, windows, mobile etc.

More more and more XBLA titles.

and… ***FREE ACCESS TO XNA CREATORS CLUB***

I want the option to remove games from my "played" list.  I hate that it lists my gamer score with respect to EVERY game I’ve played, even the demos that I played for 2 minutes, then deleted.  More control please.

I’d like the ability to have a option on the played games to show if you have traded or sold the game so you dont get invites to games you no longer have.

Also, I would like to see also on the played games for XBLA games to show if they are only a demo or if its the full game.

I get really annoyed that achievements can only be gotten in online ranked games, why is me playing socially any less of an achievement that playing someone of a similar rank.

Age barriers, screaming kids annoy the hell out of me.

I would also like to see the ability to see my email inbox on the dashboard, also MSN messenger integration with my friends list would be good.

Stop ripping people off with micro transactions, M$ has gotta take control and stand up for us gamers, we already pay £10 more for games than in the last gen but to then get ripped off to have the entire game content is rubbish.

What the hell happened with Lumines on XBLA? Again, stop trying to rip us off.

I’d love to get rid of M$ points and instead use standard currency, that way I know exactly how much I am paying.

Bring the movie and TV service to the UK now, we get screwed by every company because we aint America, its not fair!

Why in gods name are there only 3 movie trailers on live in UK? Give us all of them.

I’d like to see integrated video chat in game as an option.

One last thing, a little pop up to tell you if someone has accepted or rejected a invite, its just nice to know.

I’d like to see Xbox vision video conferencing, and even voice conference so that you can talk to more than one friend.

A web browser would be great too!!

More ways to interact with or follow your Friends:

- some method to be notified about your friends achievements; “subscribe to achievements” or something. It could spur more gamerscore rivalries. So for example, if someone else on your friends list plays Gears of War, and they finally beat RAAM on Hardcore, you will get some kind of automated message “DevsterC has just attained the ‘A Dish Best Served Cold’ achievement in Gears of War (30 G), and now has a gamerscore of 2125″. I think it has to be a ‘pull’ in that you voluntarily subscribe, otherwise some wiseacre friend would spam everyone with news he just played 100 games of Hexic or something.

- Use the zone setting. I’d like an option somewhere to only get matched with others of the same zone – some of those underground people are too hardcore in skills and trashtalk.

- Multiplayer Game specific notifications (for non-ranked games). If you’re really into a game, maybe you want to know not just that your friends are online, but that they are playing that game. So you can then immediately pester them for an invite. “Ozymandias is playing unranked GoW” – he is? sweet, I want to get in on that action.

General Communication:

- Friends list that allowed grouping, perhaps integrated with MSN Messenger

- video conferencing/chat: divide the screen into four sections, show up to four feeds at once.

- option to get your XBL messages copied to your regular email address.

UI:

- setting to make the blades translucent

- faster achievement enumeration

- SHOW ME THE TITLE WHAT IS IN THE DRIVE; play game or play dvd just doesn’t cut it.

- a battery meter that works; sometimes it’s 3 bars then 1 bar then 2 bars when I haven’t done the charge-and-play. Very inconsistent.

Marketplace

- ‘subscribe to this game’: two options. 1) something that gives you notification when there are new downloads for a game. So if you want all the info on Halo 3, you get a message when a new trailer goes up. 2) something that will automatically add anything ‘free’ for that game to your active downloads queue, unless you downloaded it before and deleted it, of course.

- better sorting in the marketplace, including better featured downloads listings.

- purchasing physical stuffs. There’s gotta be a way to integrate XBL with the xbox360 goods store. Maybe I want to order another controller/peripheral or an xbox360 hat/shirt. Sure it may be cheaper elsewhere for some stuff, always will be, but I think it would be reasonable and slick to be able to order xbox-flavoured gear from XBL, perhaps including country specific exclusives. Doesn’t have to be with MS Points.

- ability to remove games from my games played list if I have not gotten an achievement in them. Mainly to deal with arcade demos, but might apply to full games too.

That’s the little stuff I have for now.

Well you did ask didn’t you? You’re going to get a lot of repeats of course, since most people won’t bother to read throught the HUGE suggestion list so far.

You can count me as one of those people.

1) Seemless integration.  I want to be able to login wherever I am and be able to see my Gamertag/Friends list/messages/etc as though I was on my Xbox 360.  Listen to voicemail, look at pictures etc.  I want to be able to do this also through either a Cell Phone or a Zune.

2) I loved GothamTV, I would love it if this were a permanent feature built into Live.  It’s probably not going to happen on Xbox 360, but down the road.  Here’s what I mean.  Say you have PGR4, and you happen upon someone on your friends list who is playing it on a track that you’ve been having the WORST time with.  Pop in your disc and go to Observation mode, where you can watch (with your friends permission of course) your friend play through the track.  

3) The ability to backup your entire Xbox 360 hard drive onto a central account in Live.  A Live hard drive so to speak, capped at around 50GB per ID.  This has the benefit of opening up possibilities.  You can make it that Movies and TV shows CAN’T be moved there (potential pirating issues, I understand) However, you CAN move PROPERLY formatted WMV files onto your Live Hard Drive from your PC, then you can download it to your Xbox 360.  It may sound tedious but at least it’s controllable from Microsoft’s side.  The other side is machinima possibilities as well as screen shots that can be easily moved between Xbox 360 and PC.

That’s just off the top of my head.

>I would like my 360 ‘rich presence’ to show my friends if I have been on Xbox.com. If I visit the MyXbox site then leave, my gamertag says that I was last seen XX minutes ago, but as I haven’t logged onto Live via my 360 people can think I was ‘appearing offline’ or avoiding them. The website http://www.mygamercard.net shows if people were last on xbox.com and when, so I think the 360 is able to say so as well – instead of just ‘last seen’ with no description of where or what I was doing as it is now.

>Ability to remove trial games from gamertags. Not full games, just XBLA trials. The fact you can’t earn any achievement points from a trial means it should not affect your gamerscore or remain on your gamercard. If Microsoft want this data I’m sure they can, and do, record it some other way, so why force gamers to have trial games on their list forever that they may have only played for 5 minutes to have a look.

Two words: Party Chat

I have a small group of real life friends who I regularly play on Xbox live with.  One is disabled and can’t travel easily and several of us are on low incomes, so the private chat feature is great to allow us to talk regularly without running up huge phone bills.  In effect, we’re using the Xbox360 as a VOIP solution.  We’ll often chat to each other even if we’re playing different games.  It’s social and it’s like having them right there with you even though they live hundreds of miles away.  It allows us to be connected even though we live hundreds of miles apart.

However, if we’re setting up a 4 or 6 man game, it can feel like being one of those old fashioned telephone operators, as we try to get everyone in, swapping channels and relaying messages between channels.  It would be nice if, just like I do with private chat, I could invite people to talk with but instead have the option to invite a number of people all into the same chat channel, instead of all into sepereate channels.

When we PC game we have a Ventrilo or Teamspeak server and we can all join in, even if we’re playing different games… something like that doesn’t exist on Xbox Live

I’m sure this feature could be extended as part of additional mobile devices as live becomes more of a service that encompasses more than just Xbox360.  Or it could be encompassed as part of some sort of clan system for the hardcore gamers.  Heck, longer term, wouldn’t it be great if we’re all watching the same thing through IPTV whilst all chatting together, booing and cheering, or giving our own commentary.  It’d be like having our own mini screenings.

the xboxlive should have a web navigator

Forgot to mention on my previous post that I would love to see the matchmaking and lobby functions of games integrated into the dashboard instead of being in game so I could start a lobby for one game and continue to play another while the lobby was filling then switch disks at the last moment. Save sitting around doing nothing waiting for people to come online or join your lobby.

I would really like the party/group chat feature.

I think the friends limit of 99 needs to be lifted also a way to sort your list into separate collapsable folders for each game.  Sometimes you only play a certain game with a friend on live and it’d be easier to click on that game, rather than scroll through 99 friends to find them.  I think Live should have better tools to test connection issues there are several people on Live that I can not connect to games they host, but both our systems say we have an open NAT etc…and the problem seems rather mystifying.  Also we need previews of gamer pictures themes etc.. I’m not big into buying them but an option to see what your buying would be appreciated.  

A web browser would be great too so I don’t have to switch to my PC during live play.  Also Voice Chat needs more work, also fix the damn wireless microphone problems I spent 60 bucks on that thing and it is near useless.  Everyone I know who has one can’t keep it synched or it just freaks out in general every few minutes.

I second xxSAVANTxx suggestion on a hard disk enclosure. As far as live is concerned, don’t tie the hard disk cost to your own ability to sell hardware. You want me to download shows? Ain’t gonna happen without me having some control over the disks.

Also, make it a vertical drive enclosure so I can RAID5 some 450GB 3.5" drives. >:D

As to Live improvement, it needs a better web implementation. MS should offer a faster, better image generation of your gamertag profile than http://www.gamercard.net. You should also be able to have a scorebord image generated that sorts by points, gains, names and games played.

I want to be able to submit a list of names to an MS web util that pulls gamertags sent (not just based on friends list) so that my forum buddies on http://www.gamingtrend.com can view thier stats, rankings, etc. If you want more info, msg purge on http://www.gamingtrend.com/forums

as part of the launch of live anywhere i would release a range of peripherals that can be used with xp/vista and the 360

all of these would include the ‘X’ button to access xbox information

possible items could be

– keyboard

– phone

– laptop

– media center remote control

– mouse

– zune (360 edition)

i would also install xbox live terminals at places like airports, underground stations all based around the ‘X’ button so i could log in and check what my friends are up to, send some messages, set my 360 away to download the latest game

once installed these are then constant ads in prominent places so will reduce ad budgets where installed

Game sharing for multiplayer over live, like you get with the DS and PSP.

That is all.

Some news.

i keep haing to check major nelson.com, other blog sites and the official xbox site for xbox news.

it would be rewally great if i could get that news on my 360 instead of having to go upstairs and check my pc.

Web browser support is a stupid idea and it does not workj on the Wii or even back on dreamcast as websites are optimised for pc displays.

But news feeds would be great, the ability to subscribe to major nelsons RSS feed and view the articles in the dash would be amazing.

if you check the XBMC for the original xbox this has feeds coming from xbox scene but you cant read the article. if you allowed us to subscribe to feeds such as this site via the xbox it would be great,

if you dont allow us to input our own you could create your own list of feeds we could subscribe to this would controll content to good degree

also audio download support, as major nelson said in a podcat it would be great to get his podcasts on the 360 and even have an ability to listen to them via the headset as we are playing a game so the game audio and podcast are seperate.

i probably could have constructed this whole statement better i know i havent exactly sold it but im in a rush and i hope you get the idea.

I’m never going to use it unless it’s free.

I wish you’d keep Xbox gaming separate from PC gaming, but since you aren’t planning on doing that, could you at least make it so that gamer profiles, achievements, gamerscores, and the like aren’t shared between PC and Xbox?

I would like a sync option on the Xbox, So when I had my lunch break at work I could sign in on my work xbox and all my save games, preferences, and all other stuff would be exactly the same as my home console.

I would also like the ability to decied if I want my gamerscore displayed or just left blank like you can do with games played.

Lots more Apple Mac support, not everyone that has an Xbox wants to have a a PC with windows on to get all the benefits.

I don’t own a 360, but I do have a media center PC.  I would love to have access to XBL on this device.

However, since I live in Canada, I can’t get access to any HD content from XBL, or any TV or movie streaming content from ANY major company.

People wonder why Canadians have the most pirates / capita.  When you don’t even have the option to pay for online video content it is hard to justify not downloading content from torrents.

Give me content at a reasonable price and I will sign up!

I love the video chat facilities on the 360.  Clearly there is demand for multi-user chat but what about extending it a little?  For those of us with friends or family elsewhere in the world, couldn’t we share specific directories of our remote photo-list with users we are video or voice chatting to?  That would be great!

Also, why can’t we make playlists of music held on any device other than the 360?  I use media center and want to have playlists on the 360.  Probably there already IS a way of doing this (build it on the media center?) but that isn’t made clear anywhere.

A USB TV input would be handy…  For those who dont have media center.  For-instance, a SVHS input or even a component input for HD.  Not for DVR facilities (though that might be nice!) but for input from set-top boxes or video cams – saves taking the flat panel off the wall or reaching behind the projector.

I back the request for more codecs.  In particular, why not support DVD ISOs?  I had loads available to the media center using a 3rd party extension to browse and play – meant I could hide the discs from the kids!

The ability to use our own photos as background images on the blades would be good.  Cached from the network photo-store, perhaps even randomly selected and rotated…

The ability to "Skype out" (or MS equivalent…) to landlines or to H323 video clients would be ideal.

A YAC or other telephone interface would be VERY good.  Connected to the PC if necessary.  I imagine an always on HUB of activity through the 360 – the way the MCE should have been.  TV / Telephone (multi-simultaneous calls?) / DVD / HDDVD / ISO / etc. all with on-screen notification of anything appropriate happening.  Use the dongle video input to collect video from a home security camera to show who’s at the door in a window when there is a certain amount of movement in the frame?  All this is surely within the realms of possibility…

The need to store our game saves and unlocked items on a MS server. It si very frustrating to unlock all of the items in a game and then have to come back and "re-unlock" them ever time a harddrive goes down or a new console comes out.

If server space and costs is an issue, then make it "ten slots" online or something like that, where we can purchase additional slots via MS points.

These should be treated as "backups" and triggered by the user from the system blade.

I think it’d be a great idea to keep live going. Just get some dedicated servers and most of the cheating will dissappear. I know that microsoft has the funds to buy servers. They aren’t that expensive.

I would be happy if Live expanded it’s voice communications to all mediums, that is:

If I send a voice message from my 360 to my friend who is out shopping, he should be able to listen to is on his phone.  If my uncle is on his computer in another state (and has a microphone) I want to enable chat with him.

Also, If I am getting a group of friends together to play a match of any game or something, I want to be able to talk to all of them at once, fast.

If all my friends are playing the same game, I want to be able to automatically message the whole group, rather than clicking on each person playing.

These are my thoughts,

Thank You

There’s a 100 possible on friends list.

Need a 100 possible Clan list.

peace, BOE

Hmm, interesting.

Firstly I’d love to see the friends list limit expand from 100; as the service grows, more and more people will hit this limit. Sure, as an average, people aren’t hitting it at the moment, but as it becomes more accessible, particularly with LIVE Anywhere, people are going to dramatically increase their friends.

The global music server is a very interesting one, though I can imagine bandwidth issues so it would probably cost extra.

I’d like the ability to backup saved games and profiles to the live server so in the event of a hard disk crash, accidental deletion, or some other disaster, it is possible to get them back with no fuss.

The 50MB limit on arcade games needs to go.

I’d love to see a digital distribution model for original xbox games that have been recoded to work on the 360. A digital distribution model for 360 games could be interesting, though this would require much bigger hard drives, and require the issues with DRM to be solved; people will not be happy when they can only play their $60 purchase when connected to live.

The idea of watching a friend’s screen is also interesting, and would fit nicely into the social aspect of Live; you can preview how a game looks, offer advice, etc.

Finally, chat channels that support multiple players are essential; please give us that option soon!

Hmm, here’s a few:

- The ability to preview themes and gamerpics on the Marketplace. People have been requesting this one since launch.

- An age restricted zone for over 18′s that you have to verify your age to play in. I’m sick to death of screaming kids on Live.

- MSN messenger integration. I know the idea was played around with a while back but it never surfaced. Given that the 360 already supports USB keyboards and it has no problem doing video/voice, this would be pretty cool.

- Party play, a la Halo 2, in every Live enabled game. H2 showed just how well the system works, and trying to join games in, for example, COD3 or GOW can be a real pain in the ass, because most times you try to connect you get an error message (and yes, my equipment is all set up properly).

- No more MS points would be nice, although it’ll never happen. Having to perform conversions in my head to see what the price for something really is, is a pain in the ass too. Plus it’s kind of deceptive.

How about opening the Live Movie/TV marketplace to a wider audience?  Its extremely frustrating to see the availability of innovations and content limited to U.S. customers only.

For me the biggest issue with Live at the moment is that the international community is not getting the same level of service as our friends in the U.S., despite us all being paying customers!  

Perhaps TV licensing might be too difficult an issue to resolve due to cross-network agreements, but Movies should be do-able.

In any case I’m not asking that there is complete parity, but at the very least try and make it look like your pursuing content and services for territories outside of the States!

First, I want the featured they removed back… namely the MSN Alerts (with associated cell phone notification).   It was great to get a text message on my phone everytime a friend sent me an invite, even if I was offline.   Plus, this feature was promised to return sometime in 2006 (the webpage with the promise is still up).   link:  http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2005/0829-messengeralerts.htm

Other than that, I want improved diagnostics. When I can’t connect to a friends game, I want a hint as to what is wrong… Not just a connection failure. The current NAT-Open test is a start.   You can have all the wiz-bang features in the world, but if I can’t play the latest game with my friends, it’s not worth the money.

Hello, it would be fantastic if the Xbox 360 is able to have a internet browser. The wii, ps3, psp and nds have it, now only the Xbox 360 needs it. And it will be perfect if the Xbox 360 got a second controller with motion-sensor, especially for race games and sport games, it would be great. I already think the Xbox 360 has everything I wanted (perfect online, IPTV) It would be perfect if the two thing above will come also. Especially the internet browser.

Another vote for save games being stored online with my profile.

OK Bigger picture here…

Soon everyone is going to have a 30-80 Gig Portable Drive they bring with them all the time….

Soon everyone will have 1+ Tb memory storage at home

Soon everyone is going to have wireless connectivity…all the time…

Soon everyone is going to have the opportunity to communicate with anyone in the world with voice and data and video.

Create.  Share.  Compete.  Home and away from home.

Instant access to new ideas, new media, latest anything.

This has the potential to shrink the world like we have never shrunk it before. Your best friend could be half a world away, yet you both communicate like he/she is right beside you.

Time issues?  Gone!  Create the virtual you to play that game, make that presentation, multi-task like never before.

I want to be able to leave my home base Live and take it all with me; my portable Live is my remote control, my home away from home and my work away from work.

Live has the opportunity to create the ultimate network for all to embrace, without limits of memory size, distance, location, and content.

This can be the next Windows in terms of effect on the technological age.  The tools are already in place; it is a matter of putting the pieces in the right places.

We just need to open Windows a little wider…

5 years?  Think about what we did not have 5 years ago, and how fast the next 5 will develop.

And I forgot 1 thing important….MSN!

I think the private chat is awesome, but I think that you should be allowed to chat with more than one person.   Sometimes its frustrating to have to keep switching back and forth with friends when you are trying to set up a game.

Halo 2′s party system should be required in all games.

Also a better preview option for themes and stuff.

Some sort of filter so that adults don’t have to play with little kids. It would keep parents happy because adults tend to swear online and would keep adults happy because no one likes to hear some little twerp singing or screaming the whole game.

WEB BROWSER

GROUP VOICE CHAT and GROUP VIDEO CHAT

ORGANIZE your files/movies/demos/trailers by name, size or date

Option to DISPLAY what the heck is in your DISK DRIVE!!! even those other last generation systems had that!!!

SEARCH MUSIC. List a keyboard on screen and go directly to any songs that starts with the letter "E" or whatever.

SHOW VIDEO THUMBNAIL PREVIEWS of trailers/movies or anything that you have on your hard drive by just moving the controller over it.

"Canned" RESPONSES to chats/game invites, etc… Say your in a single campaign or a team online game. You can send a "canned" response to any invite or chat request by selecting from a menu or set it BEFORE you start your game.

all i really want is group chat, it is rather annoying to have to switch between private chat lines.

About the GPS: GPS only works OUTSIDE. It takes 3 or 4 satellites to determine your location.So in order for it to work you would have to have an external antenna. However if you were hooked to live in the first place it could probably find what city you lived in through the internet service.

For all us "older" people who have to get up at 5:30 a cool feature would be a weather blade with current weather and the 7 day forcast so you don’t have to ever stop playing games to try and catch the weather. I know thats pretty cheesy but everybody above me already said all the cool stuff!

Give us a browser on the xbox, with a wireless keyboard.

That’s all I ask.

What about support for XM and Sirius Satellite Radio?

This way one could listen to music/news/talk radio while playing games online…

These services are desperate for subscribers so it would be good press if Live supported them.

Bigger private chats. SO i can talk 2 more than 1 person at a time.

Just to shut the hell up mouths of PS3 fans, there must be a good web-browser at the moment.

Nothing to suggest more )-:

Im still wondering, what ever happened to velocity girl? The thing i was the most excited about xbox360 before it launched was when J.Allard talked about velocity Girl. User created content, by the users for the users. This is a HUGE reason i bought a PC over a Mac for my second computer and im starting to regret it.

Halo2 Vista will have a map editor feature, Unreal 2007 will also have that feature on ps3 (THE MAIN REASON I WILL BUY A PS3 WITH UNREAL 2007), but Xbox360 seems to have forgotten what it means to be able to customize everything on your console. Ya sure, i can customize things, but the only way i can do that is by purchasing it through you, which sucks. I want user created content. Maps, themes, whatever… But i shouldn’t have to go through MS for everything.

I want map editors in games so that if i dont feel like paying 15 bucks for GRAW maps, i dont have to. You guys aren’t giving anyone a choice right now with Live and that sucks.

Also, bigger games online. And no, 16 players online isn’t a  big game.

Before you guys can start thinking ahead with Live, you’ll need to fix the things that need impoving and these are some of them.

Bigger games online and user created content. Until then, i dont care about the rest.

I’d love to be able to mount NAS drives to expand storage capacity for the 360.  XBLM media downloads are superb, but 20 GB is not a lot of storage space (even the rumored 120 GB drive is too small IMO).  If the 360 is going to become the central media hub in my living room, it needs to be able expand it’s storage capabilities somehow.

A release schedule for XBLA games would be great.

I also really like the "adults-only" filter and the theme preview ideas.

Dunno if other people have suggested this yet (that’s a long list to read)

I’d like my Live profile and my Live mail/msn to become one. So the ability to voice/video chat on my console with any msn user and the ability to check my emails on my 360.

I’d like the ability to have overide all pause soundtrack commands on games so that I can listen to a custom soundtrack and hear game audio but not have it paused every time I die.

I’d like to be able to record video (like planned in halo 3 but in all games) in game and then view it on my pc.

I’d like all my saves stored on a server and at the same time the ability to take my gamercard with me (though a phone or some sort of Zune or any portable device) and be able to plug it into my friend’s 360 and play games as me without having to register my gamertag on his 360.

- prohibiting friends from seeing my current activities.

- if someone answers  a game invite i would like to know if he declined it or just didnt answer it.

- receiving emails ( Text only ) on my xbox

My friends go on about lag all the time playing games like Rainbow Six: Vegas, and they say that on PC games servers there is none, now I dont know if that is true because I have never played a PC game online.

I have been on Xbox Live since the begining on the Xbox 1 and there games suffered with lag also, I was hoping moving into the next generation with Xbox 360 lag would of been a thing of the past, basically I would like to see the Xbox Live servers improved or what ever it takes to rid games of lag because it ruins online gameplay, this is what we are here to do play games online please Microsoft can you fix it for me.

Also I would like a bigger friends list.

More than just two people in video chat.

And a web browser would be nice.

Well, I heard about it on Diggnation a rental service! give me 3 movies a month I will gladly pay a subscription fee. cancel my netflix. Also When will we be able to transfer movies to the Zune?? I know its coming. Zune and Xbox work so smooth together, its only a matter of time before content can be shared between the two.

Also I really hope they get rid of the 3 time 3 days stuff. I was trying to get back the FREE content that comes with the ZUNE and it restricted me!!! whats up with that?

Well im wondering off topic.. xbox live. is there anyway to adjust in coop play of rainbow six.. to allow us to use the camera instead of the map in the top right corner? one problem I have with one of my buds is the enemy always hears us chatting over live. if only i could visually signal my bud through our cams while in game, it would be awsome!!

I cant think of anything else im in school with a bad cold and headache, but i will post as soon as I think of more!

also I would really really like to use all my 20GB drive!! I dont ever play older games… i played halo 2 at first cause no one had a 360 now its no excuse! i want those unused gigs of my drive for more content!!! im a live downloading maniac.. besides i like keeping lots of demos on the system. and movies? i avoid HD movies cause no hard drive space!! if only I had those extra gigs free!

If you have ever used those thumb drives that come with the U3 service, they give you the option to remove that OS from the drive and its a one time thing! once gone its not coming back!! if xbox team comes up with something like that for the HDD then i would gladly give it all up!

hope this gets through!! thanks for the post!

I Only have two Ideas.

It was spoken about officially awhile back but i havent heard anything since…

I would love to be able to spectate on online gameplay, with a lot more integration of camera angles etc. a real big killer would be when there are pro lan contests etc and these could be broadcast live via ownership of said game.

As i’m getting older i dont always fancy listening to some 5yr diss my ‘mom’ but am still very interested in online games and this would be nice to kill a few hours and hopefully pick up some tips from the pros

Perhaps not a "Live" feature….but…(I’m not sure of how the XBox 360 software architecture is implemented)

…it would be great if we could access the full Windows Media Center interface without requiring a Media Server itself – ie use the XBox 360 as the Media Server base don content on the 360 Hard Drive or other connected PC’s – ie Embed the Media Server interface into Dashboard rather than making it a Media Center Extender only.

I’d like to see more options when filing complaints about people online. In particular, I’d like to see a specific complaint for racist or homophobic language. That really needs to end on Xbox Live, and I think having it be a specific option for a complaint would really help deter people from using that kind of language.

Also, if possible, having more games show the ping times of the host would be great, if that’s possible.

I love BIG ideas, they’re so GREAT!

1) Good thing is when you see people on the streets. Sad thing is that none of them is on LIVE when hitting the streets. Basically there has to be any mobile device that can bring people online on the streets.

2) When playing on the streets there has to be games on the mobile device that let’s you interact with people. The device should be built such that you can on one single device play 2-4 people versus or co-op. Say you play Chess on your own mobile device with some dude everyday on the bus. So when you want to start the game where you left off last time you both have to have a single flash memory card each to unlock it. It’s like an atomic bomb, man! It’s HUGE!

3) Interactivity is not just the Internet, it’s also interaction between gamers and non-gamers. I’d love for there to be an RPG that let’s you gain points through a heart beat sensor. So whenever you need to gain more points to defeat some evil doer, just strap on the heart beat sensor and start jumping around, man! Or, if you know someone who likes to work out 24/7, just put the sensor on him/her and you’ll be the king of the world in no time! Of course, the actual heart beat sensor has to be Xbox compatible, duh!

I Only have two Ideas.  

1) I think the dash board should have a blade for clan support. This will make it easier for people to group up and for game that dont offer any kind of clan support themselfs.

2)I would like to see group chat. most games have issue’s with in game chat and having a group chat would allow us to at least talk to the few friends that we have in the game. Also the ability to have a clan meeting through a chat would be easier for all of us.

not sure if it’s been mentioned yet, but Halo2′s matchmaking/lobby system remains the best of any xbox live game out there.  

is there any way that Halo2′s matchmaking/lobby system can be replicated as standard across all games??  burnout revenge is a pain to refresh and join matches, GearsofWar is lacking in matchmaking/lobby functionality, GRAW, RainbowSix, othergames, same problems…

I would like to see grouping be avalible for your xbox live friends list- similiar to what is avalible in MS communicator.  If(when) the xbox live service becomes more accesible, my friends list is going to be even more unmanagable then before.

Coworkers

**friend 1

**friend 2

Buddies

**friend 3

**friend 4

Also, the ablilty to allow your friends to chat w/ you via phone when you are offline would be neat.

How about tournaments?  Most online poker sites have weekly tournaments apart from regular gameplay.  You could have game-specific tournaments on Live, and earn achievement points rather than cash.  Over time, you could have smaller tournaments leading to entries in larger tournaments – a "world-series of gaming" on Xbox Live.

All I want is a damn Web Browser.

It’s kind of pathetic that we don’t have one yet.

I mean, Nintendo of ALL consoles has one.

The company that wouldn’t know how to create an Online game has a WEB BROWSER and Weather and News for Gods sake.

@BoonDocks:

I just spent 6 weeks waiting for reimbursement of Marketplace Points so that I could re-purchased my XBL content on my replacement 360.  My wife and kids couldn’t play *anything* unless I logged in first, provided our Internet connection wasn’t down.

I’ve suggested the following two solutions, but nobody at Microsoft seems to have taken them seriously:

1) When a customer’s 360 is replaced at the service center, all associated XBL records should be updated *before* the customer gets his new 360.  Previously-purchased content would be re-authorized when the user plugs his/her HDD into the new 360 and logs in to XBL.

2) Gamertag recovery would authorize all XBL content on the current 360 and de-authorize it on the old 360 whenever it gets online again, *regardless of the profile that signs on*.  The latter would be key to preventing piracy of XBL content.

One thing that allways bugs me is:

That in my game list, arcade games en fullgames are listen in one list. Just seperate them because when i download a demo and don’t like it, it’s still there ARGH

I like being able to chat with my friends in private chat, but I’d like to be able to chat with more than one person…. kind of like a ‘personal chat room’.

I don’t know much about the mobile portion of Live anywhere, but I’d like it to be free (if possible) so I can access it from a smartphone without having an expensive data plan…… possibly accessible through wi-fi.  I really like the idea of using my gamertag on a variety of devices.  I would like to be able to access marketplace and other great features from XBox 360 on Windows Vista.

I think the XBox Live Vision camera could use some more features.  At first, it was fun to have your image on the dashboard background, to video chat, and to create custom gamer pictures, but I think the camera needs some new ‘killer apps’, such as a ‘personal gamer page’ where you can keep a blog on your 360, have pics for everyone to see, etc…. kinda like Live Spaces on 360.

Finally, I think there should be some kind of internet browser, considering the PS3 and the Wii have one, I think the 360 should be a follower and get some kind of web browser, especially for people like my some of my friends who do not have a router and have to unplug their internet from their 360 to access it on their PC.

Captions/Subtitles/Telecaptions option for the downloadable movies and tv shows that are sold thru the live marketplace. Do you guys at Microsoft know how many deaf/hearing impaired xbox live gamers there are? Its a growing fanbase and now you guys are gonna be making xbox 360 into something that can give us internet tv. Don’t get me wrong, I love my box. I love my box soo much that i try to get my friends and family to get the box too. Alot of them are hearing impaired or deaf. Its hard to get friends interested when a simple thing like captions are left out of the movie or tv watching experience when there’s already a communication handicapp for us throughout the games we may play. I mean, being hearing impaired and still playing games on a system that allows u to communicate by voice with other players is fun and all…xbox 360′s more than just a games machine and thats exactly why i brought mine but then, the movie and tv show feature u add, leaves potiential customers in the dusk. Make the system accesible. Dunno if i spelled that right, but u guys get me right? Sure you do      GAME ON LIVE BUDDIES!

How about more board and card games on Live?  These games have simple graphics and can be played across multiple platforms – 360, PC, even cell-phone.

Here are some suggestions: chess, dominoes, euchre, mah-jong, go, bridge, crazy eights, cribbage, etc.

The single most important thing would be to make MSN and other instant messenger services work with xbox live. The only reason I use my computer more than my 360 is that most of my friends don’t own 360s and therefor I can’t communicate with them while using my 360. Of course, both voice chat and typing would have to be supported. With this out of the way, here are some other suggestions:

- The ability to "spectate" your friend: the choice to stream a low res video version of what your friend is doing right now on his 360. Possible to turn off in some options menu incase you’re about to do something "private".

- The ability to record and store videos anytime, in any game (like in halo 3, just that it’s integrated into the OS).

- Viral marketing campaigns using already released games, like for example a patch that makes text or messages appear in halo 3 (you would have to sign up on a website to be able to do download the patch, and it would be removable.

- Ability to set up head set servers for talking only; with the choice to have the server put into a list that everyone can see and then join the server from. Basicly like teamspeak or ventrilo but with the community features of xbox live.

- More map makers in games. I know this is more an issue with the games, but still, there’s a reason people still play Far Cry Predator: the fantastic map maker. It’s my favorite live game simply because of it.

- Make it possible to make your own server age restricted; as our age is included in our live account it would be fully possible, and as long as it wouldn’t be possible to see your exact age it wouldn’t be against the law (?).

That’s just a few of the suggestions I probably would be able to come up with if I had more time. Honestly, I love xbox live as it is but there’s always room for improvements.

I Think When You Go 2 Ur Music On Ur Xbox 360..You Should Have An A-Z Option On Artist, Album & Song Title…Instead Of Having To Surf Thru Ur Songs 100 At a Time.

Thanx

After reading through a bunch of these comments, I’ll second the web browser request.  We’ve already got keyboard and HD support, which would make surfing significantly easier and better on a 360.  480i/480p and an on-screen keyboard don’t make for useful browsing.

I’ll also second the request for supplemental storage, be it USB or network-based.  By all means, DRM the crap out of it like you already do, but make it recoverable through one of the aforementioned methods.  (I’m on my third 360 since launch, and I take good care of my electronics.  I don’t want to have to endure another six weeks of phone calls to non-English speaking "support" people should this 360 die as well…)

I don’t know how possible this is, but a ‘gamesave server’ would be pretty cool.  It would be where your XBox 360 would act as a server for your gamesaves, so you can access them when using your gamer profile at any 360.  This would kinda eliminate the need for a Memory unit, but it would add some convenience, giving you access to saves that you may not have room for on your memory unit.

We experience LIVE through the dashboard. I’d like to see the dashboard be faster than  see it being animated and swooshy. I’d rather see the dashboard be "flatter" meaning less digging in general. (icons work for the mp3 player part, so why not have a toggle for online appearance status as well?) And finally we navigate through LIVE with our d-pad, and the d-pad is the one and only problem with the 360 controllers… it is rubbish.

Re: Ozy

Ozymandias responded below and I would like to answer from my point of view as well…

Re: "Has anyone said web browser yet? It’s kind of conspicuous that the 360 is the only console out there without one available – including handhelds."

So I’m curious. What exactly would you/do you do with a web browser on a console? Remember that not everyone has an HDTV, so you can’t assume PC Monitor-like resolutions. Also remember the challenges of navigation, UI, and use.

So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?

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  Being I only have one computer in my house, this is a nice funtion to have if our computer is being used by somebody else and you want to check something online.  No one expects console browser replace your internet experience, just suppliment it (for now).      

  And like others who have commented on this, all in one ability to jump on the internet without having to go to another room and bootup your current computer would be a god send.  

  I browse the internet on my cell, im aware of the limatations and use it quite often in spite of this.  Bottom line is, it gets the job done.

   Hope this helps keep up the great work Ozymandias and thanks for lisening!

i would like to have the film rental/tv episode shop put on the Uk marketplace.

also i would like more than wmv support for video streaming.

Increase the amount of people in private chat.

Finally a web browser, sure my pc is behind me when im playing but im lazy and if for example im playing a game or talking to a friend and they recommend something to me i could quickly go back to dashboard into the browser and check prices etc without moving.

1.) Have to add ability to stream different video formats. Having to convert mpeg and avi home videos to wmv is too time consuming!

2.) I have over 300 badges on msn games. Integrate these badges into live achievements. This would make live arcade and msn games the #1 short gaming portal.

3.) I second the ability to have better searching and sorting of music and a possible web browser would be nice for the big screen so I can get to the free cbs streams of my favorite shows.

You rock. keep up good work.

I would also like the ability to better organize my Friend’s List.

In addition, it would be great if a comment line were available for each friend.  Just a small text area, similiar to the Motto, where a remark can be left for each friend.  For example, I can leave something like "Met in GOW…A+ attitude" next to a newly acquired friend.

Requirements of the future are the symbol of sharing.

To not let personal interest’s be forgotten, and to share the individual experience’s with your

friends.

Whether its gaming, entertainment or life in general.

We have seen the past few years an extreme growth of sharing, whether it is consumers, developers,

or people in general, sharing, and debating in fantastic comunitys like myspace.com, youtube, and

blogging.

To integrate these phenomenal features into the fast growing xbox live community, would not only

secure people the opportunity of sharing information, like audio and video and maybe even

blogging, but it would secure that company’s could send newsletters, news(though audio and video

and blog’s) to communicate with consumers easier. consumers could also communicate easier through

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger chatting.

—-Personal sharing, like blogging, or home video(ofcourse watched and accepted by microsoft

personel)

—-Developers sharing, like developers diarys

—-Communicating through chatting Microsoft Live messenger, Cellphones(like skype, ofcourse for a

fee, secured by microsoft points)

—-Also opprtunity for E-Mailing, Word, and so on..

Emil A.

Denmark

BTW

Xbox 360 Live rulezz

* MY #1:  Make Halo’s (or a ‘Halo-esque) matchmaking and party system an feature set available for *all* games to implement.  The lobby systems for many games right now are pitiful annoying and weak … if they could implement a Halo system w/out having to write it from scratch, then the online/multiplayer community would *soar* (Halo 2 was the #1 XBL game for a long time … it’s party/matchmaking was a huge part of this)

* #2:  a re-usable clan, ladder support, challenge-mode, and game/challenge scheduling facility for games to implement … i.e.:  facilitate competition and tournament-type things … why?  online play is great, but I don’t always want my comptetive play to be against the world … there’re smaller subset of people that I’d like to have focused competition with

* Wider video codec support

* A web browser, an optionally a better tool (example:  a Wii pointer) to quickly navigate dashboard menus and browsers

* Organization and grouping options of my friends list so that i can easy send out invites to subsets of my friend’s list

* Cheaper HD movies .. and more HD movies … (i’ll actually pay for them if they get cheaper … right now i avoid them cuz i don’t like the cost)

* Ability to auto sign-in to live in hidden mode when i turn on my 360 (auto sign in exists, but i don’t believe that i can be hidden or appear offline by default)

* multi-person private chat

I would like to be able to copy music from a USB stick to the hard disk. Now I always have to leave the USB stick/mp3 player in the 360 to play the music, also it isn’t possible to make a saved playlist of them. That would be nice to.

I can now use a picture as background on the dash board, but when I use it it is on al dashboards (games/live/system etc.) maybe would it be an idea to make one for every board, so you have 4 different background? (I mean you dcan use any screen you like).

Last thing I would like that you can move the screen on the tv (don’t know the exact name) to the right/left/up/down. Because now I use a RGB cable, but it moved the screen like 1,5 cm to the left. Now I sommetimes I can’t read names on the left end of the screen.

ps. Maybe the last thing is already possible, but I haven’t found it yet. If someone knows how to do it, please post it here. Thanks.

Oh, and I forgot:

The ability to leave any Live Arcade game and come back with it at the same place you left it. You can do that with some of the puzzle games (ie. Hexic HD) but I’d like that with all of them (ie. Ms. Pac-Man, etc). Nintendo’s Virtual Console, from what I hear, does that.

I would love it if I could receive in-game alerts with the scores for various sporting events. So, for example, as part of my profile I select that I want to know the scores on any NHL games being played.

Then, when the score changes, I would get an alert (like the "Achievement Unlocked" or "Friend (X) is online") stating the score – example, "TOR 3 DET 2" or some such thing.

The service thus far is great. I am happy to be an Xbox 360 owner and have access to LIVE, but there are some things I would do to improve the service.

1. Playback of .ogg files. My music collection is made up of .wma, .mp3 and .ogg files. Unfortunately for me a majority of them are .ogg Vorbis. I love the quality of the file and wound never convert my thousands of files but have to convert/stream using TVersity to be able to listen to music while playing games (something I LOVE about the Xbox 360!!) On that note though, my Zune should be able to play them too…

2. The ability to see the Marketplace content I’ve downloaded on my Vista machine. I don’t always want to watch them just on the console. If I am working on a project on my computer I would like to have a little window running with the show playing. Not a big thing but would be nice.

3. Continue offering great games and content to the gaming masses. Xbox LIVE rulez!

Oops, I just remembered one more thing.

In regards to marketplace, have the "New Releases" notation automatically remove itself after I’ve checked a specific item.

Every time I to go the marketplace, it shows New Releases next to items I may have even checked last week.

Instead of me wasting my time each day going to many different websites/blogs to check out the latest video game news/games/reviews, it would be great to turn on my 360 and see all the latest news that I am interested in waiting for me…some type of automatic download that I am able to filter out what I want to view. A little websurfing would be nice as well such as checking my email.

Everyone always wanted to see Ric Flair fight Hulk Hogan, everyone always wanted to see DC comics vs Marvel comics and everyone always wanted to see King Kong vs Godzilla. Eventually it happened whether thru merger or agreement or something along those lines. It would be awesome if there could be cross-platform competitions/gaming…Such as play Madden or Rainbow six on my 360 vs someone who has a PS3 or even a WII…I know this idea is out there but you all have to evolve and settle your differences because this is what the public wants and the only way yall will continue to evolve.

I Agree with whoever said you need age filters…I am 41 and love playing video games…I really hate playing a 12 year old with the mouth of a sailor and even though I give him a poor review never to see him again there is ALWAYS another 12 year old gutter mouth to replace him.

It would be great if every now and than I had a message from Microsoft, on my 360, asking how are things going, any improvements or questions…just to show the consumer that you appreciate them and really are interested in overall satisfaction.

I would like the ability to sort content by what is free.

Allowing region select options for connectivity, i.e., allowing someone the option to only connect to other players in their specific region of the world, or selected regions.  I’ve met some great folks from all over the world on XBL, but sadly our games are marred by horrific lag.  All my settings for connecting are Xbox Live-compliant, so allowing users to connect strictly to those in certain regions of the world would cut down on the high volume of lag-ridden games and raise the volume of higher-quality connections.

Group voice chat. It’s been mentioned before and I’ll mention it again. You can do it in games and you chould be able to do it from the dashboard.

Multiple friends lists/accounts. More important when Live is integrated with MSN. I have different accounts (work, home, xbox live) with different friends lists. I don’t want the users on each list to see the other lists/aliases but it would be nice if I can log into Live once and see all the users.

I would like to see my friends gamerscores from the main  friends pane. I would also like to compare all my friends scores per game.

I think this is the MOST important thing, and while it’s been mentioned, I don’t want to see it overlooked.

Halo 2 esque Party system should be an absolute requirement for ALL Xbox Live multi player games (unless it’s just co-op or 2 player).  I’ve never had as much fun on Live as I have in a party with people I know going up against another party in Halo 2.

Gears of War pissed me off with it’s lame online system.  Seriously, Halo 2 absolutely stomps it online.

Now to the more unlikely requests.

If you want people to start buying things on Live, let them use a USB hard drive/network share (please! please!) and let them back it up.  I’m scared to death the the shitty, budget notebook drive that I payed $100 for ($5 per GB for is RIDICULOUS!) is going to die and I will lose everything I payed for.  Hackers already have their way with it, regardless of the lame restrictions you put on it.  Just keep doing what your doing, ban Live accounts that have evidence of hacks.

Get more third parties to sell/giveaway codecs on Live.  I spent a week trying to get a nice WMV 9 Advanced Profile video encode that would play on the 360 and still couldn’t get good results.

Either get a web browser, or make a lot fewer restrictions on Media Center extender (90% of the online stuff doesn’t work on the Xbox 360.)  As much as I hate it, you need Flash support for sights like YouTube (there are plugins for Media Center already for this).  Do you realize the kind of free advertising those sights do for you?  Do you know how many Geometry Wars and Marble Blast Ultra videos my friends and I have watched and tried to mimic from YouTube and  Google Video?  Don’t be jealous, grumpy Microsoft.  Invite that stuff in.

1)  Faster Navigation (loading times for videos, pics, etc.)

2)  Web Browser (if this is supposed to be my CENTRAL media experience, I want Web!)

3)  DVR capability

4)  Larger Hard-drive

5)  HDMI

6)  Larger Friends List  

7)  Moving Wallpaper (Like the Default 360 Theme or Vista’s Ability)

 A MP category that is simply "ALL NEW DOWNLOADS." (Weekly list of EVERY piece of new content…not segregrated into categories).

9)  Ability to "mute" individual people.

10) Ability to reorganize the "cue" of active downloads

11)  Ability to customize a Blade.  (I would make a blade that includes Videos, Arcade Games, and Achievements).

12)  Better Screen-Saver.  (The Aquarium or even Starry Night-like displays would be cool on my plasma).

I’d like to see this feature just on Xbox.com. (It would get too distracting on the PC or Xbox 360). I’d like to see a MySpace sort of thing where you can see the friends of your friends.

How about acheivements that you get in a game unlocks a gamerpic or theme to use for free, or it could discount an already available theme on the marketplace.

I also used to like playing "You Don’t Know Jack" trivia game on the PC a few years ago.  How about reviving it, or making something similar, and have new questions put up each month on marketplace that you could purchase for around 100points each month.  If you’ve played You don’t know Jack, you know how much fun it would be to play over live against one another with a zanny host.  Kind of like "Remote Control" on MTV a few years ago.  Very simple game to do.

If you did half of the things suggested so far it would be impossible for a single person to quickly find a game and play on-line.

1. Better customer service.

2. Migration of saves and XBLA titles to a new or replacement hard drive.  Allow game saves to be moved to USB drives.

3. Mark purchased XBLA titles and TV Shows in the browser.

If i have to pay for all the extras for the games i play i want xbox live to be free or vice versa it only makes sense i dont want to pay twice.

How about a "Last played with" date next to each friend?

This would make it much easier, in the event of a full F/L, to weed out friends that you don’t game with frequently.

My suggestion is to first get "Live" working better on the 360 before you go ruining it by routing everything back to "PC" gaming….at wh ich point I will no longer want it.

I don’t care about accessing Live through my Zune or whatever….Your first step should be to make it so that every new online game has the same features and functionality that Halo 2 has on live……

Allow us to remove games from our played games list!

I want to be able to group and organize my friends in easy and intuitive manners. I want to be able to chat, voice chat and video chat from anywhere using a 360, pc or mobile device. I want full wireless keyboard support on the 360.

I want to be able to buy live subscriptions or live games as gifts for anyone on live.

I want to be able to surf the web on my 360 (If the Wii and PS2 can do it, why can’t the 360?)

I would like to be able to access, save or move my game saves from anywhere.

Better previewing for themes and icons.

More payment options for microsoft points and/or live subscriptions (Paypal, Bank, etc.)

More variety of games and genres (2D Fighters, 3D Fighters, Action Rpgs, Platformers, MORE JAPANESE GAMES!).

I think Live should have more regular updates, instead of the big two each year. I would like to see Web browsing on the 360. You guys have to do that. I mean both PS3 and Wii can do that, and you guys made the internet. I also thing that we should be aloud to play more video formats like avi, Divx, etc straight from the 360 itself. I’d also like to see the 360 more like MS Media centre without having to connect to a PC. I know some of these things probably don’t come under LIVE, but I thought I’d mention it. How about the price of LIVE? Maybe a lower price point? It’s good value already, but Sony are completey caining the fact that their service is free (Even though it’s probably sh*t!), but it’s still free for multiplaying fun. Can we have massive wars, like Sony fans can with Resistance? How cool would it be to have a massive Halo war? Even if you only did it for Halo 2, that sh*t would be great!! When are Europeans going to see any of the cool stuff the U.S. guys do, like the movie downloads and IPTV?

I just can’t remember which gamertag belongs to which person on my friendlist, there are too many of them and some use different nicks on Live than in forums, others vary only by a number. I’d love to be able to locally change gamertags on my friendlist to their real names or names under which I recognize them. Just as I can in nearly every instant messenger.

Back when LIVE Anywhere was first revealed (E3-2006 I think)  - it was shown as being more of an integral part of Windows Vista.

I.E. with a blade coming out from the side of the desktop…

The demo I saw during Bill Gates’ keynote at CES2007 only showed LIVE Anywhere on Vista as built into the game interface.  It also deliberately avoided the XBOX to Vista game invite (instead it was Vista to Xbox).

Have you fundamentally changed the LIVE Anywhere offering..?  Is it now part of the game rather than part of Vista..??  

If so – I will be very disappointed…:-(

A Live Blade available on the Vista Desktop will give me everything I want from the platform as it is currently (friends, invites, messaging, chat)….

You could also expand that by producing one for Windows Mobile for when I am out and about…

Other ways I would like to see LIVE expand are:

1./ Proper Game Stats – there is nothing like the gloat factor you get from bungie.net game stats – that should be part of every game and available on LIVE/Vista.

2./ Marketplace on Vista and Windows Mobile

3./ Integration with LIVE Calendar and LIVE Alerts – so my friends and I can better organise our sessions…

Video Marketplace in the UK…!

And a few for the Media Guys at MS:

1./ Ability to play DVD folders from MCx

2./ Soapbox Integration

3./ Save content to Network PC

Clan Blade. Period. No online game should be without it, it makes the experience much more rich and having a unified clan blade would make it easier not only for the player to carry it over but for the game developers to implement these features into the games. It definitely increases the longevity of a title.

You would need to be able to have a lobby of friends on this blade, a message board to talk amongst each other, a calender to plan dates and clan matches if your clan chose to compete at a specific game, and more.

The live anywhere could play into where your phone or computer could receive and send messages from your clan mates and have reminder times of clan battles and such.

also XBLA needs some Light Gun games..that’s what arcade is all about they’d sell tons. come out with a wireless light gun for like $20-40, then release the games (house of the dead, time crisis, etc) on xbla and bam, instant hits.

Good luck!

1) Halo 2-style party lobby system for multiplayer games (gears of war would have greatly benefited from such a system)

2) Have a Live Messenger program for Windows/mobile devices, where text messages (or voice chat, if you have a mic/cell phone?) can be sent back and forth to anyone on xbox live; allow anyone on Live (say, playing a game) to see that you are online in Live Messenger from their buddy list.

3) Group voice chat channel, clans could really use this i think

4) On the topic of clans, add support for them into the 360 dashboard like the friends list already has.  See Halo 2 for how its friend system handles clans; make this funtionality a built-in part of all multiplayer team games (fps, tps, rts, sports games, anything that has online team play).  Less game developer time can be spent on such systems if the 360 itself already has the system built-in, ready to be used.

I’d like the ability to send player feedback on Xbox.com. Xbox Live’s interface is kind of clunky and I’d welcome the ability to do it with my mouse.

Also a section for more profile information would be nice. As it is, we only have the motto.. which isn’t much. I’m sure there’s a reason for that, but if it’s possible.. give us more. People would welcome it.

I also wouldn’t mind seeing more features for Ambassadors (as in, Trixie’s volunteer Ambassador program) over Live if at all possible. There is currently no way to tell who is an Ambassador on Xbox Live, only on Xbox.com.

I guess that’s it from me.

I’d like to be able to send & recieve msg’s to my buddies on Xbox Live, from my Cellphone.

Is there any way you could support USB Bluetooth dongles, so that, say if I wanted to go outside for a cigarette, and not drag my controller with me (even though its wireless), I could receive an alert on my Phone letting me know everyone else in the match is ready to continue.

Or how about being able to see your buddy list on your phone, and send texts to those people?

They’re some interesting things developers could do with Bluetooth I’m sure. Even if we were able to connect to xbox live with our cellphone’s bluetooth headset, instead of being forced to use the plain jane looking Xbox wired headsets. In case you haven’t read around lately or used it, the Xbox Wireless headset is pretty uncomfortable. Playstation 3 already has bluetooth support.

Also, PS3 can connect USB keyboards and mice up to it, and run linux essentially turning it into a PVR. I know Microsoft plans on updating and realeasing similar functions, but with the right drivers, I could hook up my ATI USB TV-Wonder PVR and start getting some of that. If you allowed for more usb friendly interfacing, it would be very appreciated.

Thank you

Ideas I really want to see:

-Previews for 100% of items, especially Themes and Pics.

-I’d really like to see an overhaul on changing the Theme of your 360. Maybe be bale to change alot more then just pictures in the background and the trim. Maybe fonts, colors, even design like the actual trim shape itself. Instead of a ovaly square I want a jagged edge…. got the idea?  A really customizable 360!

-Get rid of the REP system. People abuse it to much.

-It would be great to have a monthly video from someone at MS telling us what they are working on. Just like a little "Hey heres what were doing for this month…". That would make a great video to market place.

-Add a chat function on Live, since we got keyboards and all.

-Add a "Poll of the day/week/month". Have general things or maybe have things like "Ideas for 360" people can vote on.

-Enhance the video quality of videos watched from PC.

-Mute people online. That would be great.

-When you check a item on Marketplace that says "New Release" make sure it doesn’t show up again next time your there.

-Surfing the web? Although I am not sure about viruses.

There are two things that people talk about (inlcluding me) that are probably hurting the system, or at least Live I would like to see changed:

-Restrict companies from selling "parts" of a game after its released. Add ons are one thing but selling "cheats" like fastest cars (EA), or things that are missing in game were suppose to be there make people weary of 360 games.

-Change or have developers change how online games are setup. If you don’t want to paly with friends online sometimes your stuck usually facing a team of friends and theres no sense in playing because it mostly ends in defeat. This alsos cares alot of people away from wanting to get Live if they aren’t into heavy "friend" play.

Live should let me order food. And do my homework.

Sorry, almost forgot.

PRIVATE GROUP CHAT

It’s crappy when sometimes you wanna talk to more than one person, and he’s friends with your friend, yet you all can’t group chat.

Please let us..

Thanks

Being able to speak with more than one microphone (2 persons) or with a "handsfree" (more than 1 person) with friends.

Multiple player private chat and/or a chat room similar to the one on the Xbox 1 that supports several players.

Maybe a de-frag option for the hard rive?

Why can’t more games use matchmaking and party systems like halo 2?

Stop EA from abusing the micropayment system. They are charging $10 extra for next-gen games that feature less content on-disc than the same title for last-gen systems which cost $10 less, and then asking for more money for gamers to fill out the content that’s missing. That’s abuse. Obviously, I’m not talking about them charging for content you can unlock as long as you play the game (which is something else I think is ridiculous, but if you’re dumb enough to pay for that stuff, then so be it). But, that’s the biggest change I would like to see on XBL. Why? Because I think big publishers/developers like EA (especially EA) should be forced to include full versions of games on disc. Especially when they charge a $10 premium on next-gen titles. They should not be allowed to sell you half the game up front, and then ask for more money later for the other half of the game, especially when they’ve included those things on disc in the last-gen version. It’s unfair to gamers. It needs to stop. If it doesn’t stop now, it could set a precident for all next-gen games by more publishers and that would be a serious afront to the customer base (ie Gamers).

I do not know much about IPTV, but with it’s release, it would be cool to see an ‘XBox Live Spotlight’ channel, with new releases from marketplace, new game releases, trailers, tournaments, etc.

Here’s a simple one…make the Xbox 360 do its own indexing of media.  I don’t want to have to set up a PC everytime and deal with passwords on multiple computers with WMP or Zune.  That way it’ll search my network for all my MP3′s, pictures, and photos.  Today its too difficult for the non-techies to pull it off.  I have helped countless people set up their 360′s to do this because they’re floored that it’ll run media when they see it demo’d at my house.  That’ll certainly tie into all the media focus the machine has been getting lately.

My pet peeve of the interface is viewing my active downloads. It takes too many clicks to get to that. If I’m in the middle of watching some horrid episode of Enterprise and I want to know when the next horrid episode of Enterprise will finish downloading, I have to hit the big X button on the controller and then go to some oddly named menu (something like "user options") and then click "active downloads" and then I might get some usable information out of that. In my opinion, its just as important to know when the next episode of Enterprise is ready to play as it is to know if my *** friend is online (which takes 2 button pushes as apposed to 3). Follow? Maybe this is actually a comment better suited to an article about the dashboard, but all this crap ties together so much.

More achievement statistics! I would love a report on the Live site that ranked all the achievements (from every game) based on how many users have it. That way, you can plainly see which achievements are harder/more rare.

Also having a similar ability to sort all of the achievements *I’ve* earned like the above. Which of my achievements is the most rare? I want to know!

If nothing else, get that advanced feed ready for Community Developers so I can create the report myself. I’ve already got the mockups.

Thanks for listening to your users!

I’d really like to be able to remove games from my games played list, particularly XBLA trial games that I have only played once and will not play again.

- Automatic updates to what’s new each day in the marketplace. It should be able to be sent wherever you want, e-mail, Xbox Live messages, cell phones, etc. It’s annoying to have to browse everyday and try and remember what’s new — just send a list out with each addition.

- The ability to share what DVD/HD-DVD title you are watching over live — just like how your friends can see the game you’re playing.

- Ability to mute chat in games!

- And, since larger HDs are going to be necessary — a way to copy relevent info from your current hard drive to a new one (perhaps stream it to desktop in Vista then back to the 360 when the new HD is attached. This is VERY important to me and willhelp determine if I upgrade.

I would like to see my friends list organise into groups so that I can message a whole group. For instance I may have a clan group, work colleagues group. Adding these into 1 or more groups as appropriate.

Also, editing/modding of game content via mobile devices or PC. Customising paintjobs/liverys/stickers in Forza.

Better organisation of the marketplace content. Choose how long you wish your content to stay "New". At them moment, "New" content is 2 weeks old.

Be able to swap custom dashboard themes/pictures from user to user.

Have an xbox live blog page for each gamertag and be able to update them via website or dashboard.

Better support for different video/music file types. Able to play video files from an Ipod.

Support a more elegant method for sharing XNA homebrew with other 360 owners.

Add the ability to watch videos from a user-driven video upload site (Youtube, MSN SoapBox, etc.)

Web browser, but with voice recognition similar to vista.  If this is not possible, than make the voice recognition through the media center.  I don’t want to use a keyboard and mouse or a controller to browse the web just let me tell it where to go.  You might as well voice activate the whole dashboard and the whole media center interface.  For people with the vision camera maybe implement gesture recognition for the dashboard.  This would clearly separate the 360 from it’s competitors on the usability front.  

Speaking of the camera how about some more gesture based games.  I don’t see why something like wii sports can’t be done with the vision camera.  How about a game of catch where a father and son throw and catch a virtual baseball over live or play volleyball or dodgeball.  Just a game where kids jump up and pop bubbles would be cool especially if they are doing it with their cousins in a different state.  

 I would also like to be able to video chat with more than one 360.  Make a second vision camera with a noise cancelling microphone or a stand along microphone for group video chat.  Enable video chat between pc/pda/cellphone and 360.

I have two 360′s, and I would like to have multiple live accounts for additional family members/guests.  It would be nice if a live account could be shared with up to 5 360′s in the same LAN or at least a discount on additional live accounts.  

Live Anywhere.  Give us the option to download all the content (movies/tv shows/arcade games/demos/videos) from live onto a pc.  Let us stream the video/movies/tv shows from the pc and transfer the games to the 360 over the lan.  Transferring things to a pc from the 360 would also be great for backup/additional storage.

Hopefully this has been mentioned before, I didn’t have time to read through all of that but: I think the most important feature of the new (and much touted) Live Anywhere should be the ability to log in to your Live account from ANY 360 without having to move your profile on a memory card. If I can access my profile and send messages through my computer (and hopefully, eventually through my phone or a Zune) then I should just as easily be able to sign in through a friend’s Xbox. Single user, password protected login. It’s not nearly as difficult to implement as some of the suggestions and it’s NECESSARY for the continuing evolution of the Live infrastructure.

5 Chatrooms instead of 5 Private Chats (1-8 users?).

Multiperson private chatting & video chat that supports up to 4 people.

It is frustrating when I have 3 or 4 friends online and I just want to chat with them all to decide what game we might play. Unfortunately, as it stands, you can only chat with 1 person at a time per channel.

Enable us to sign into Xbox Live on other peoples’ Xbox’s using our email address. In example if I went over to a friends house and we decided to play on xbox live in split screen (like Gears of War) I’d have to play as a guest since we can’t connect to harddrives (don’t tell me to buy those ripoff memory units). So, logging in using email address would be so much easier.

Multiple-person private voice chat is the must-have for me.

I think Live! is fantastic and have been a subscriber for years, ever since Ghost Recon for the original Xbox shipped.

Anyhow… I think Halo 2 has bar none the best Live! match making system of all time. I would love to see other devlopers use this system.

Also, I would like to be able to voice chat and Vision chat with more than just one person at a time.

My last wish would be for a web browser. I sometimes need to settle a bet or research something quickly and would like to not have to boot up my PC and just do it through the dashboard on the 360. (Come on… the Wii and PS3 have browsers!)

Thanks Microsoft for listening and making the service better for us!

What about a web browser and maybe extending it to allow file transfers over live. The voice chat room expanded to allow more than 2 people, like a conference. Making an ad version of the service so it can be free like playstation network. Be able to design my own custom dashboards in every detail.

MS continues to push the digital lifestyle and seemless transitions. The issue is that you are no where near this. The best way to inplement a live anywhere aspect is to have importable profiles. I.E. you have an account on a PC with use preferences and backgrounds, friends lists etc. This translates to an Xbox account which inturn can be imported to your cellphone. To complete the experience WIMAX would need to gain steam. Now to truely go the extra mile IPTV with a GAMETAP like option MUST be enabled. Imagine being at work and having UNO usuable on your PC, cellphone, 360 etc. now imagine having the option for 100s of games, classic and otherwise playable on each of these mediums. Maybe a limit of 4 users accessing the same content at anyone time would be good option. That way families could play together.

Anyway, my biggest push is for the 360 to offer gametap like capability I would pay $20-25 monthly for a similar xbox service. People already do it for netflicks. you have a better infrastructure, where you can do the same for less. you loss money to netflix everyday. I should know im a member and wont buy a single game for the 360 because I can play a game as long as i want and return it without penalty. Id rather pay MS and get that content instantly. so thats something to consider.

Here it goes, finally a way to reach someone who can get things done.

First of all, a web browser is definetly a must for the Xbox 360. Their rivals already have it. Microsoft is a software company come on.

Second, MSN Messenger interaction between PC and Xbox 360. Considering it’s a Microsoft product why haven’t it been done yet? I know it has been thinked about, but why not done?

Third, email check, send and receive between PC and Xbox 360.

These are basic features that would certainly be welcome by all Xbox 360 users. As you know, the Microsoft game console is home for hardcore gamers, and they all want to get they’re hands on the net, surf the web, send emails, talk to their friends over MSN Messenger…

Fouth and last, the dashboard of Xbox 360 shoulnd’t have the so called "blades". A more Windows aspect would be very much welcome and with more info that could be browsed with a keyboard and mouse. That’s it. Xbox 360 is all about the network, so get a move on.

Rock on Ozymandias.

I would like:

A web browser

Video marketplace in more countries ( I know you are working on it)

Group private chat.

Thanks!

There are a couple of things which I would like to be implemented:

1) To have the "Appear Offline" status as an optional default status for each time you log on.  That way, if you fancy a quiet week alone, you don’t have to go to settings and change your online status to Appear Offline every time.

2) Make it possible to stop trial arcade games from showing on the Played Games list, including both past and present ones.  This has been putting me off trying out XBL games for a while now because it makes the Played Games List too long and messy.  I have a number of trial games that I did not decide to buy on my Played Games List which I’d really like to get off there.

3)Scoreboards on the Xbox Website.  It would be cool to go online and check your high score against your friends quickly.  Also please make it possible to see how many players have played the game, so you can gauge how much your position is worth.

4) Can you put Hexic HD up on the marketplace?  PLEASE!  I had that game until I went to delete my game data and it decided to delete Hexic too!  This was before the update that fixed the problem and I think it’s unfair that because of a mistake I can no longer play the game, unless I’m willing to buy a new Hard Drive, Which I’m not.

Apart form that, I think you guys are doing a stellar job and should be proud.  You’re the one decent online gaming service out there, but don’t let that go to your head!  Progression is key!  So cheers for this opportunity to improve the service!

External usb hard drive, just plug it in like the external HD-DVD, so we can continue to use the current one, and return of the new items list on the opening page of the market place. It could be around 50 items long with newest items added on top and oldest items being deleted as they reach the bottom, this list would include all content demos, movies, trailers, pic, themes, all new content, without any sub menus.  The most frustrating thing  about Live in my opinion, is how we have to go all over the place to find new content.

Private chat for clans/teams

More friends in friendlist

I would like the dashboard to include a team chat/conference chat. I only talking for up to a max of 4 or possibly 6 attendees.

Xbox Live Subscriptions primarily tied to the console, with the ability to roam.

To sum up, I dont want to spend $50 for everyone to have a live account in my house, just to play games online,.

I have no issue paying $50 to enable online play for the machine.  But want a situation whereby individuals can have their own gamertag, stats, rep etc, so that you dont have to share accounts, and you can track individual progress.

I realise that some people want to take their live accounts to a friends house so they can both play online together, thats fine (as long as the machine has a primary live account), you would just need to make it (which it probably already is) that you cannot logon to 2 machines with the same account at the same time.

Sirius radio streaming while playing games!!!!!!!!!

k, here what i think should be added

* A Web Browser thats free and allows you to surf the web. So you guys can compete with Sony and Nintendo because they also offer a Web Browser.

* Group Chat, make it so you can have more people talking in group chats instead of 1 all the time. This is a feature that has been wanted since day 1.

* More Downloads to download, when i download 6 things from the Marketplace, i cant download anymore unless 1 or more of those 6 finished downloading. Make it so you can have more then 6 like 8 or 10.

* Cutomizing your dashboard backround. I can only cutomize my dashord blade but not my backround. I would like to change my colors on my backround dashbaord.

* Xbox Live Vision Camera Fix, when ever you take a picture, it always flips the picture sideways. Make it so when you take a picture, you just take it. Nothing gets flipped.

* Music Marketplace, I can download movies, tv shows and music videos, but what about Music. People love to listen to music and im sure they will buy them too for cheap marketplace points like 50-80 points.

* Movie Download Previews, When you looking at previews for movies, it should be trailers for that movie. Instead some of them show part of the movie clips. I mean if i never saw that movie, i would be spoiled. Make it so it shows trailers of that movie instead of parts of the movie.

These are some of what i think you guys at Microsoft should consider doin, but do stop here. Think of many different ideas that will really surprise us..

The xbox needs to be able to play more media formats like divx and Xvid.

And by biggest problem with the xbox is that Microsoft are neglecting Europe all the time. The xbox live video marketplace is only available in America. And I can predict that IPTV will be exclusive to the US until it becomes old news. WE in Europe need these features to. If these features were here as well who would rember the name of the other consoles as it would be about the 360.

Also xbox 360 needs a web browser.

Give an Xbox360 which allready have a Gold member on it, a possibility for silver members to "piggyback" off the gold account.

Right now my GF has a silver account, but if she wants to play UNO online, she has to pay for gold, or play on my account.

And think if we had 3 kids who also wanted to play online using their own profile.

That would be 5 subscriptions which here in Denmark cost about $86 a year times five, thats $430 a year. That is so not right.

Great ideas guys!

1. Better private chat management. When trying to coordinate with two or three people things can get very clunky, very fast. Perhaps three way chat?

2. Advanced movie download time ticker…how long will this take?

3. TTF program. User ability or automatic function that highlights your current Top Ten Friends (people you play with most or select) on xbox live. Ability to save a select number of pre-written instant messages to these people, (EG: Search 10 rounds) This will cut down on all the private chatting when people are trying to work games out.

4. Notification system for friend activity. Highlight name and select, "let me know when this person is done playing their current match."

5. Game stat collection in dashboard. Think Perfect Dark user statistics. One page dedicated to showing how many kills, wins, losses, 1st places won…from all manor of games.

I know some of these are impossible but hey….:-)

Ive got a few ones:

- 1) Xbox Live tournament TV:

The ability to watch online tournaments. Why wait until NBC or CBS make a move? Why dont you guys create a Live Tournament TV option so that users could check out the latest video game tournaments through Xbox Live? That would be awesome.

- 2) Being in the stands…..of the game:

Not to mention, if you are watching a Madden tournament on Live Tournament TV and you actually own the game thats being playing at the moment, for example, why not let the users who are watching the game(and own it), sit in the stands of the actual game and watch the game a la first person view. X button cheers, Y button boooos, etc…

- 3) User created maps:

I dunno why this is taking so long on xbox360. This is one of the first things i would have done. By letting users create their own Halo3 maps for example, people who *** a lot less when it came down for paying for official maps made by the devs because they would have another viable (not to mention free) option. The modding community on 360 is strong so give it a chance.

- 4) Streaming other people music to my 360:

Being able to stream other people music while playing games. Lets say im playing PGR4 and im tired of listening to the music on my HDD, why not let me choose music from the other people in my server. Why has this not been done yet?

- 5) My face in the game:

This one i already emailed to major Nelson a while back but ill post it here: Let users take the picture of their face (like in R6 Vegas) and store it on the HDD through the dashboard so that when other games use this option, i don’t have to go through another 40 minutes to put my picture in other games all over again. One picture on the HDD that can be used in all games.

- 6) Big online games:

Although some people might like smaller games online, i don’t. I would love to be able to play huge online games and right now, the 360 doesn’t seem able to produce that. Gears of War 4 on 4?? Jesus… Come on guys, put on some dedicated servers on live and give us some 32+ player action.

- 7) Free beta testing for all Gold memebers:

Why its so hard for people to play the Halo3 beta for free is beyond me. For a premium service that we bloody pay 50 bucks a year to use, it would have been really nice to have the Halo3 beta without additional purchases. One good way to convince people to get Live would have been to give free a free Halo3 beta for ALL gold users. That would have been a nice gold premium exclusive and would definitely make Silver users wanna upgrade. The way its done now, you guys make it so difficult to play the Halo3 beta for free that people wont even bother to upgrade to gold until Halo3 actually comes out at retail. Poor job guys.

Make the Gold user feel like the 50 bucks is worth it!!

- Xbox Live Anywhere must be more than just another Gamespy copy:

One thing i noticed was that, as of now, Xbox Live Anywhere on PC is nothing more than a copy of Gamespy.

Xbox Live Anywhere on PC NEEDS to be more like Live on 360. I must be able to message friends from my Vista desktop without having to log into games. Come on guys, why is Live on PC going back to the Xbox1 days?? Improve this before release or it will fail. PC users need a good reason to subscribe to Live and as of now, there aren’t any.

Thats it for now.

A browser would be novel but I would really love to see the ability to stream internet radio, such as Shoutcast, through Live.

Dashboard skins which can be created by the community.  Not mere themes but complete skins.  Perhaps release software specifically for skin creation.

C’mon, give XBMC a run for its money. ;^)

Make the unlocked Achievement badges available to use as Gamerpics. If I earned something like Gears’ "Seriously…" you bet your ass I’d want EVERYBODY to know about it.

Platinum Live Account.

Costs more than gold and has higher restrictions as far as how much feedback you can receive. The way I see it is little kids wont be able to afford it and cheaters wont want to risk the extra money if they were lto lose their account. Than all of the "older" people who can afford it and don’t cheat can play each other. Platinum accounts vs Platinum.

As with the original Xbox, a chat room feature.  The ability to chat with more than one person/friend at a time without being in a game.  Also, let’s go one step further to allow for team video chat.  We can multi-user chat/video chat within a game, so why only in a game?

Create a chat room from the dashboard (allowing or disallowing video) and invite friends to join you to chat.  Or open the room for public and see who enters (user discretion is advised).

Custom gamertags – Once someone is on your friends list, you can edit what their gamertag name says on your screen.  It would be nice to see your friend Steve as "Steve", and not "SirHutdawg394".

Gamer notes – A little section in the friends list where you can add notes about a player to help you remember them.  Just a sentence or two should do.

Smart invites – Invites only go to gamers who have the game in their games played list.

Quick buttons on the guide – I pull up the guide now, and the triggers, bumpers, and right stick do nothing.  How about making them control the music player?  They would make great track selection, volume control, and play and stop buttons.

Better music display – Artist, album, and track title display options in the full screen music player.

Also, if you decide to make this web browser everyone’s clamoring for, make it OPTIONAL. I’ve already got a computer and don’t need that intertron garbage gunking up my 360.

Just make sure that microtransactions are actually for new content and are not simply unlocking content that is already on the disc.  If i paid for the game i should be able to access everything on the disc.

I suggest having a streaming video thing, oy. Just like youTube, users can upload their own videos. You could regulate them if you want, oy. That’s your choice.

Yeah, I heard the other comments, oy. But it can happen, oy. Bye bye subscriptions!

Here’s another one, oy. Have stuff on there from old Bill[Gates].

I love the idea of seeing what someone else is playing "picture in picture". My brother and I chat all the time when we’re playing different games. Seeing what he’s up to would be great.

web browser please

no more legging games if that is possible.

and that yo can download programmes like jackass or southpark or frsh prince or wildboyzz and that stuff.

calling on your xbox with somebody with a mobile.

a xbox live chat room.

3d things thats fun.

And one thing I forgot, free media downloads. How this would work is some shows would offer their latest episodes for free. This would work just like television, and be supported by advertising. Unlike TV, where people just skip commercials these days, there wouldn’t be a fast forward option. Users would get free on demand TV, and advertisers would get the knowledge that people can’t fast forward through their adds. Only the last two or three episodes would be free. If you liked the show, you’d have to pay to watch the older ones, which would then be free of adds.

The only change to Xbox Live that I would like to see is an expansion of the Friend’s List.

a) the ability to go beyond the current 100 friend limit

b) the ability to tag or categorize groups of friends.

As a member of multiple gaming commuinities, it would be nice to know who is from where.

Especially now that you are planning on expanding Live across new platforms.

1.  it just sucks typing with a controller.. Give us a system like cell phones use.. I can type fast as on my cell phone.. (T9word).. Give us a system like that. not some stupid keyboard that makes us hit the stick 3455676 times to type a phrase.

2. They absolutly must get a system that allows the storage of personal, divx, avi, mpeg, wm files..  They allow music, why not video?  Plus they don’t make a first party streaming code between xbox and windows media center. can only stream actual recorded video from WMC.

3. Manual ordering of gamertags on your friends list.. I say who is first dammit.

4. save more pictures with the camera.

I would like the system to be able to play any format of video file, not just wmv’s.  I purchase video for my iPod through iTunes, it would be great if I could stream them from my computer to my Xbox360.

Well, I would like to see Xbox live become a first person environment.  

I really like the idea of co-op gaming, and you can talk to your friends the whole time you play.

It would be nice, if I could watch the superbowl, with my friends in other states, and see and hear them…

1. Web Browser

2. The ability to stream ANY video capable of being played in WMP 10. I don’t care what codec was used, we should be able to stream anything.

3. When you see your gamer score, it shouldn’t include the demo’s you download from Arcade, only the real games you’ve played. I d/led Dig Dug but never bought it. It still added the "out of" 200 or 300 points to my "what I could potentially have" score, though it’s not ever going to happen…

4. The ability to filter certain things on Marketplace. What I mean is, I will never download themes or picture packs if I have to pay for it. I don’t even want to see them as an option!

5. The ability to see what disc is currently in the drive without having to load it. If I don’t know if I have Halo or GoW in, the only way to figure out is to either eject the game or play it, both take way too long.

6. Better support for messaging between Halo 2 and the 360 system.

7. Faster speeds for retrieving my Live name through the Xbox when transferring from one box to another. It currently takes 10-20 minutes…

The whole you get what you pay for is BS when it comes to online services like XBL. Stream is a good example of a FREE multiplayer service that works really well. Just because FREE service on the counsel has been bad for so many years does not mean that it has not been done right else where. Those of use who play both PC and Counsel games think its a joke that you have to pay for multiplayer. Microsoft should make more then enough to cover the costs of XBL from there "micro transactions" (I can only imagine how many millions are trapped on xbox live because no matter what you do you always end up with about 190 points left to spend) not to mention you can only rent HD content at this point. I think they are just being very cautious at this point since xbox was such a financial disaster.

Clan support would be nice, as it was a promised feature a long time ago.  Having the ability to distinguish between friends from 3 different clans is difficult to say the least.  

Ability to remove the advertisments from the dashboard.  Then I could actually see my dashboard picture.  I’m paying for XBL and therefor should not be subjected to advertising.  If you are going to give away the service, then advertising is acceptable.

Removeal of trial arcade games from my recently played games list.  You are unable to receive any achievments from the trials, so why waste the time tracking their play?

Quick response text messages.  Something to deal with game invites when I’m in the middle of something.  Maybe "Playing Co-Op", "Playing with another friend", "Don’t have that game", etc.

I want to be able to buy live subscriptions or live games as gifts for anyone on live, so I can play a private tournament with my friends and give for example 100 MS-Points as price to the winner.

Noway am i reading all of those just to see if this has been said but…

the ability to take screen shots on game that automatically save to your memorycard/HDD

and also better codec support, being able to play movies otehr then WMA form.

1) Flash enabled web browser

2) T9 type text entry

3) "personal space" area a la MSN Space

4) Live news ticker with whats new on live and what your friends are up to (last time they were on, what they are doing if they are online) Like what EA has in NHL 07.

5) Some sort of news "blade" (world news/local news/weather etc…)

-Organizable friends lists, so you have the option to organize your friends by game and by those online.

-Clan support!!!!!!!!! -I think this is pretty self explanitory, it was promised since before the 360 is launched, and over a year later, still no clan support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-This might be a bit much, but maybe a live chatroom in the dashboard. were you could have around 4 people just in a room to talki and stuff. Obviously you can’t play games with it, but it would be a good way to talk to alot of your friends at once.

I want a larger HDD!!! Reasonably priced! If I am forced to spend $100 on a 100GB HDD, I will be pissed off.

I want to have something to show for my Gold membership, other than being able to "see" my friends. I only play racing games, and the dearth of any good racing games (PGR3 is NOT a good online racing game – look to PGR2 for an example of how to do it right) makes me cry. I’m not sure why I’ve been spending $50 a year on Live. I have to pay for movies and television anyway, so I’m at a loss.

I’d like to see the $50/year replaced by the revenue movies/television/media rakes in. Make on-line play free.

This is what I want.

First, it would be nice if the xbox 360 could use a keyboard. Also, having full email capabilities would be a plus and also other internet connectivity even if it is not 100% web browser but access to blogs, news, and community forums from any live enabled device would be nice.

It would be nice if the end user could not only buy a downloaded version of a TV program etc. but also the rights to stream the media to any device they are logged into and that these streams would not expire. So if I bought say an Invader Zim cartoon I could watch it steaming from my computer, xbox 360, or Zune (if I owned one).

It would be nice to be able to login into my live account from a friends house and be able to play my xbox arcade games while I am logged in. It would also be nice to buy an Xbox arcade game and play it either on my 360 or PC only needing to buy it once.

I love the idea of IPTV.

New ways of meeting people would be nice. A live version of something like myspace but more geared towards gamers would be nice.

A way to share video similar to YouTube on Live would be nice. A way to post picture/photo albums.

Channels like the Wii for things like weather, news, and gaming & movie news.

Just a few ideas.

Thanks.

I understand the issues surrounding privacy, etc. when it comes to allowing gamer demographic info to be made public or searchable, but here’s my predicament:  I’ve been playing tons of full and Arcade titles since launch, but very few of them have involved online multiplayer (Halo 2, GoW, R6).  I have a friends list full of slackers who are never online or who don’t yet own 360s.  I essentially want to fill up my friends list with gamers that have similar gaming interests, zone preferences, and demographics, without having to find them by sifting through a ton of in-game TrueSkill™ matchups.  How about adding a "Recommended Players" feature to the dashboard, which can essentially utilize something like the current matchmaking algorithm, but prior to even entering a game?  You’d see a Top X list of people who "match" your gamer profile, skill, etc. (and whom you’d never played before), as well as what they were playing.  You would then have the opportunity to join them or send a friend request.  It’d be a great way to add some more personalization to the service, and it would be a super value-added feature to gamers like me, who value a good online gaming experience at times even over which game we play.

Additional data points to match on:

* Game genres played

* Days of week/times of day likely to play

* Social networking (friends of existing friends)

Has there been any consideration for efforts along these lines?

I would like to see some sort of group option on the friends list, similar to MSN Messenger.

I often add people to my firends list when playing large multiplayer online games and within a week ive forgotten which game i played them on. If i could make a group on my friends list for a certain game, then alocate my friends to that group i would remember which game i played them on.

I’d like to see better voice quality. I use XBL to socialize with friends who live far way, and we can hardly carry on a decent conversation with the quality that exists now. I’d even pay more to get it.

Open up that USB port on the Xbox to support voice chat to an external device (kind of like the Skype handsets that manufacturers are cranking out today).

I see no reason that the XBox Live can’t be a quality home videoconferencing solution, so provide 3-way chats (or more) within XBL.

Open up the videoconferencing so I can chat with folks using MSN messenger, Yahoo IM, Apple iChat, etc.

The one, most glaring feature we need is LARGER FRIEND LISTS!  Or set up a persistent clan list (don’t limit the number of members though) like in Halo2 but across all games.  I don’t care how it’s accomplished.  I just am tired of having to shuffle my friend list every single time a new game comes out.  Why can’t I have all my friends Microsoft?!?

Mine is one I’m sure a lot of people are asking for… a larger Hard Drive…but what I’d really like to see happen with this is make the larger drive work with the existing drives… like a piggy back device that adds more room without doing away with the drive you are using.(There are already a device or two on the market that latches on to the 360 underneath the existing hard drive…) I (and loads of others I know) have their current hard drive full or nearly full with loads of content, be it music, vids, Live Arcade games, game saves, gamerpics, themes… whatever… I would hate to have to switch hard drives in and out depending on what content I want, or worse, do away with my existing drive to make room for the new one. I would do so if I had no other choice, but it will be painful, and make me sad that MS didn’t add a bigger HDD in the first place.

So if there is some way to make the bigger HDD work with your existing drive, or at least make a way to transfer all data from your old drive to the new one, I would be so much happier…

Lastly, just keep on plugging away at getting as many strong exclusives as you can for the system. That is the key… it is all about the games. Bring us Metal Gear, Devil May Cry… that would hurt Sony big time and draw a lot of people to Microsoft…

Oh, and one more thing, you should buy Capcom or Ubisoft. lol

(Imagine having Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Mega Man, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Street Fighter and all the many other franchises Capcom owns all to yourselves… that has got to be a sweetheart deal, and worth more to you than Rare ever will be… not to say I didn’t love at least one Rare game so far… Viva Pinata was outstanding…

Ok, enough of my wishful thinking…

Firstly I agree with some of the points brought up so far, Messenger live / xbox live integration,.

and hopefully there will be a wealth of integration options when i boot up & install vista,

As for capacity for live arcade, Great, But most map packs etc, are around the 100mb mark, so i dont think there would be any problems increasing the limit to 100mb, technically thats twice as much of just about anything so we’d no doubt see even higher quality games out there.

Any chance of emulation, what about old mame games, the emu & a few games are free then additional games are 100 points each,

at that price they’d fly out and it might persuade idiot dev’s to develop something better than simple arcade conversions.

Afterall who on earth would be happy paying 400 points for ms packman,

Another must in my eyes is.. Web Browser.

It was done “unnoficially” on the original Xbox, so i’m sure microsoft could put there hand in that pocket and develop us a IE360,

we all know the 360 is more than capable and for the thousands that have there 360 in a seperate room to there pc, it would be a must,

I’d be more than happy to spend 400 points on a simple web-browser just so i can keep an eye on ebay, xbox.com forums etc, etc…

More suggestions.

Microsoft points,

Make them bigger, How about being able to visit msmusic.com and download the latest tracks using your ms points.

Or what about downloading “Small arms (pc version) using the same ms points,

it’s be interesting to see how far the whole ms points system could stretch,

A whole new currency,

I for one would be happy to add ms points to paypal on my ebay sales.

may not all seem necessary, but think of it this way,

if ms points could be used for more, people would have/buy more,

which would then increse purchases across the board,

Afterall i wouldnt have brought numerous things if i hadnt have had a few hundred points spare.

Most important of all though (for me) Is where live is at its best The Xbox 360.

Great we can add friends easy enough, we can chat in game, But heres a few other suggestions for xbox live on the 360…

Chat Rooms, Simple, to get to know people better,

messenger, as mentione dbefore, xbox live on msn, and msn on live (msn / live messenger, y’know what i mean)

Deeper leaderboards, One of the main plus points of live is leadrboards for just about anything,

these should be deeper, more stats, more stuff.

an dplease, get strict guidleines down and put your foot up ubi’s ass, because th eleaderboard son Rainbow six vegas are terrible and innacurate, and although it’s been second most popular live game for weeks, they’re still a shambles.

But how about microsoft leaderboards.

boards for those who have spent most time on there 360, most time on Live,

per game, and simple leaderboards for number of music on hdd/shared devices, etc….

Theres a whole world of leaderboard & achievement chasing out there.

But i’d love to insantly be able to see which live arcade games are played most,

how many downloads a game has.

there could be a board for just about anything,

Next, Achievements.

the 1000 points per game works fine…

But what about your 360.

couldnt we have 360 achievements,

100 points when you’ve watched 100 hours of video, 100 points when you’ve listened to 100 hours of music,

10 points for every 10 games you’ve played (upto 100 titles)I’m sure there’s tons of other stuff that could be used and we could easily knock up 1000 points for 360 achievements,

and then hey, what about pc related,

ie users get points,

vista users get points,

reward us for loving microsoft so damn much

And c’mon, th ewhole points thing….

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-Group Chat like the original Xbox had

-Clan/group blade on the dashboard like bulletins made by the clan leaders

-Increase friend list capacity

-Ability to use achievement badges as gamer pictures after unlocking them

That’s all I have at the moment.

I think a whole new ranking system needs to be implemented, especially if people are going to be playing games cross platform, like shadowrun.

I think it would be better if there was distinction between ranked and unranked multiplayer games, and instead your statistics, overall, and game specific, were used to build various leaderboards.

Which leads me to…clan, or some kind of team support. Halo 2 had it, and everyone wants to form a clan/group with the people they play with most often, so that they can arrange team matches. But apparently it is currently considered unfair to be able to invite friends to ranked games… which is absurd… its not unfair to be playing with people you know, you might have an advantage in that you communicate better with your friends/clan mates, but it certainly isn’t an unfair advantage.

I’m also in favour of integration with live messenger, and having live messenger on the xbox 360, so that sending messages to friends is like instant messaging them in messenger now. Also, if live messenger was integrated into 360 and PCs, then a keyboard for the xbox 360 would come in handy.

How about a mandate to developers that their games support autosaving when I decide to accept a game invite to a different game or leave to join a session in progress.  It sucks to have to get to the next checkpoint before I can join my friends.  This is especially true in a game like Rainbow Six Vegas.  I progress through the single player slowly.  If I receive a game invite it can be fifteen minutes before I’ve hit a checkpoint and can leave.

Much further down the road, when my xbox has a terabyte drive, I’d like the games to be cached on the hard drive and support autosaving so joining a friend could be a five second process and I wouldn’t need to leave the couch.  I’m lazy.

To make Xbox Live better? Hard to say. With each incrimental update, it seems as they keep making giant leaps. Well here are my ideas:

Expand the one on one chats to multiple people. A game plagued with online chat issues need a quick fix and this would allow players to do this without getting frustrated with games like RB6 and GoW.

I like that you can use background pictures of your choice as blade pics but releasing a program that would allow you to create a file that works with dashboard properly. Allow me to make custom blades if I want. Perhaps only allow it to be shared with a PC where you create it, or on usb drives or something but I’m tired of dl’ing new skins of games that I like and finding out that you can barely see the text of the interface over the bright, bright colours of the pictures. I want to make my own!

As an adult gamer I’d like to see Microsoft add some sort of age filter for LIVE.  Either an adult gamer zone or the ability to search for LIVE games with adults only.

More than 1 on 1 chat. Mak it at least 4 people in a chat!

Allow us to see the games our friends are playing(which we alredy have) but add an option to download the game demo (will help promote the games our friends are playing).

Allow us to rate and review games so I can see what people think about the games I am planning to buy.

Allow Multi-private chat, if this is not possible make it possible for 3rd party solutions where gamers can register/use chat servers or configure their PC to host the voice chat session for their friends.

Global ScoreBoard for all games.

Global Clan management tools where clan leaders maintain a list of members, process membership requests, post clan related announcements, squedule events, maintain and view events.

Global Clan scroreboard where one can compare and see which clan is the best.

Video chat rooms where people go and just talk crap.

Browser that supports RSS feeds.

- group chat

- proper msn integration, not the way it is now just showing the xbox.com webpage, but done so you can message xbox friends the same way you do normal msn contacts, with video chat.

- integration with the msn spaces profiles, really liked the idea further up about integrating the zune as well, add media player integration and i’ll most definitly switch from a zen to a zune, and from myspace to spaces.

- wireless keyboard support for the 360. I’m planning on getting the Microsoft WED8000, and would be great to use my 360 media extender with this, including msn messenger and internet on the 360.

- some sort of rss feed support, maybe integrated with the vista gadget.

- organizing friends lists the same way you can on msn messenger.

- trial games mounting!

- display disc in the drive on the dashboard.

- being able to take pictures with the live vision camera and save them.

thats all for now, btw xbds site could do with RSS FEEDS!!!

re:"So I’m curious. What exactly would you/do you do with a web browser on a console? Remember that not everyone has an HDTV, so you can’t assume PC Monitor-like resolutions. Also remember the challenges of navigation, UI, and use.

So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?"

Browsers look horrible on a SDTV resolution. Even with the site scaling on the Wii browser I couldn’t actually stomach it at 480P. But, at HDTV levels a browser could be a useful tool. The problem with how the other consoles implement it is that you can not browse without leaving the game. Chances are I will never use a console browser to casually browse the web. But, if I could pull up a browser while in-game to reference a guide or something else game related, I definitely would use it.

2D games – old games, new games, portable games to live. Live provides an opportunity for games to have an extended life. My hope is that some of what gaming has been will not be lost.

better onliine support for team games – something similar to battle.net’s Arranged Team functionality would make playing with friends online a lot easier.

group chat would be nice too where maybe one guy can host a chat channel and invite all friends into that one channel, etc.

Enable streaming h.264, divx, xvid to the 360. The h.264 decoder is already in the box for the HD DVD.

There should be a private chat room feature where you can chat with multiple friends while playing the same game or multiple games. Or when you are in a game such as Tiger Woods 07, you won’t get kicked off of chatting after the game ends.

I have quite a few suggestions…this one will be a long one.

A little background on me, because it frames the suggestions I’m about to make. I’m 30+ and have been gaming for roughly 25 years now. I belong to one of the larger online gaming communities for adults centered around people who play online multiplayer games on XBL.

I’ll start from the most basic one, and the one all of the community members share with me.

Please, please, make the friends list larger. Unlimited number of friends would be ideal. As you do that, please allow us to categorize our friends with user defined tags. Provide default tags for all XBL games released or about to be released for tagging friends who have particular games in a standard way (nothing more annoying than tagging someone with H2, then someone else with Halo2 and not have those two friends appear in the same group). Please re-organize the XBL Friends page(s) to work with the tags, maybe default to the game you have in the tray at the moment. Please allow multiple tags for each friend. Please allow user defined tags ("plays weekends only", plays late weekday nights only", etc.)

That’s a good start, but the friends list could still be much better. Microsoft is claiming XBL to be a community. It’s not. You recently released stats stating the average XBL user has 21 friends on his friends list. That’s not much of a community by any standards. XBL is basically a fragmented collection of small communities with no ability to link the small communities (of 21 people on avg) to the other communities. This is EXACTLY why online gaming communities such as the one I belong to exist. They’re filling in the void Microsoft has left by not allowing us to build proper communities within XBL. You should start thinking about how to build proper communities around XBL. Right now you provide no tools, other than the friends list with its 100 friend limit, for any community building. Maybe start adding community building features (private message boards, private leaderboards, etc.) onto xbox.com and/or XBL on the 360.

I also wish you’d move the friends list more towards a social network rather than just a static list. A network of inter-connected friends would be a GREAT way for like-minded individuals to expand their gaming communities. I know the people on my friends list are all people I want to game with, and I would certainly trust them enough to want to play with their friends as well. I can’t do that right now, because the friends list is just a list. I don’t think I need to tell you how successful social networks have been elsewhere. A network is just a better way to think about your relationships than just a list. Not only that but social networks work best when they’re centered around people with tightly aligned interests. XBL is perfect for that. We’re all gamers, and we like to play online multiplayer games with others like us.

The next thing on my list is enabling the larger online communities to really take advantage of XBL. XBL is great for online multiplayer gaming, but it could be better. The online gaming community I belong to was formed primarily because our members grew completely tired of cheating, griefing and bigotry online. A very large percentage of our members were in the brink of just quitting XBL altogether before they joined in. Collectively we very rarely play any matchmade games against the general population on XBL exactly for that reason. It’s just not fun. Our members are adults with families and responsibilities and we have very little time to play games online. When we do have time to play it completely sucks to waste half of it playing against or with some pimply faced f***nut who thinks it’s all about winning at all costs and feeding his inferiority complexes by hearing about his pwn4g3 the entire game. That’s why we usually play private games among ourselves. This will not change until someone inven

I would like to be able to assign aliases to my friendslist.  Sometimes I can’t remember who is each person.

I think it would be cool if I could tag my played games. For example if I rent a game than I could tag it as rented so if someone wants to invite me to a game, they know I don’t have that game anymore. Same for if I trade my games in. They know I don’t have it anymore.

I really like the idea of a Live Radio, that broadcasts over Xbox Live. It could have game related programs. Game related news. It would be sweet.

Someone mentioned the ability to reorganize the "cue" of active downloads. That would be great.

The ability to have more than one person in a private chat.

Some free gamerpics and themes for Gold Members. A lot of them.

I know your already planning to have Live across different devices, but for gaming it would be good if..

-Your gamertag can be wirelessly (via mobile phone, Zune  Laptop etc.) transferable to the Xbox360 so you can use your gamertag wherever. Its not logical to carry a memory card everywhere.

-Blogging of achievements on Xbox Live. If I get a Killtacular on Halo 3, for example, its recorded and automatically uploaded online (similar to 360voice.com, or even to your PC a mobile phone or Zune. Then you can trade clips wirelessly with any other Live medium, regardless of friends lists.

-Ability to watch tournements live (rather than any friends gmae) from any Live enabled wireless device. If you have the game on Xbox360 or PC you can be a free roaming spectator.

-XNA on all windows platforms. Pocket PC and Zune or even SideShow have no decent games.

-XNA extension. If Microsoft is planning to turn the XNA service into a YouTube.How about the ability to carry your favourite XNA games on your Zune, Pocket PC or Laptop, then allowing the wireless link of games so it can played on another Windows Device. Similar to DS game sharing but across platforms. eg. Playing XNA Racer on Zune then sharing it to an Xbox360 so everyone can play splitscren.

- Stats Battle. I dont know if stats data (shot accuracy, fastest laps etc)is stored on the gamertag. But it’d be great if, when using Live Anywhere on a Zune or Mobile Phone you could challenge nearby Live Anywhere users (on a train or in a room) to compare gamerpoints or stats across genres (Racing), games (PGR4) or even individual levels to see who is the better player. Maybe the Stats Battle can have achievements of its own (Won over 100 Stat Battles), to give people a little more bragging rights. Linking to a previous idea you can could also compare gaming clips.

I know its alot of text, but I must thank you for even listing to the gamers, alot of companies don’t.

P.S excuse my spelling.

As commented before, if MS is pushing the media functions of the 360 then we need more storage and more codec options.

First open up the codecs usable by the 360 (and Media Center/WMP 11) to the various standards (including raw DVD file playback) and not just Windows Media codecs.

More storage, but not necessarily bigger drives. Allow the 360 to use network storage to store/playback media. It sort of does this with Media Center and WMP 11 but needs to be more open. Heck

For more storage on the 360 itself rather than going with larger proprietary drives that will always cost way more than they should, how about a generic harddrive enclosure that can take standard harddrives and connect via USB.

I’s like the option to remove or hide my overall gamerscore from Xbox LIVE members annd friends.

Groop chat would be nice, a news page or NEWS MEDIA BLADE in which we can read about up coming game release dates, Xbox LIVE events, and future updates, downloads etc…

My thoughts:

- Customizable shortcuts from the main blades so I don’t have to drill down through frequently accessed menus

- Remote scheduling of downloadable content so I can leave my 360 on during the day and have new demos, movies, etc. waiting for me when I get home

- Subscription service for movie rentals, a la Netflix

- More HD content

- More Live Arcade titles; I don’t mind retro classics as long as I get a lot of them!

Thanks.

Already said several times, but 2 things would be huge:

1.  Clan support

2.  Expand the FR list capability beyond 100

Here are a few things that immediately come to mind:

-Voice chat rooms–not where you can meet other people in the classical sense of a chat room, but where you can have multiple friends talking with one another at the same time. Imagine one person playing Oblivion, another in Gears Of War, one watching a movie, and perhaps one is on his computer or on a cell phone, and allowing them all to voice chat together.

-Remote storage–this is the big one. Forget about hard drives and that sort of thing. I want to have my content–HD movies/TV shows, game saves, etc.–to be saved remotely so that I never have to worry about my hard drive filling up, and also the bigger plus in that I would be able to access this content anywhere; a friend’s Xbox, my computer, etc. Combine that with the Zune marketplace, and all I can say is, "Wow."

-This isn’t much of a technical suggestion, as it is a standard for Microsoft: insure that ALL game developers aren’t charging obscene amounts or removing content from their games to force us to buy back later; insure that ranked games aren’t made out to be this exclusively "Oh my goodness, this is ranked I have to be on my game or forget about it" style environment. Look at online PC games–some servers are ranked, others are not. The difference? One records stats, and the other doesn’t. It’s as simple as that. The current structure just does not work well, specifically in shooters. (I’m thinking about things like not being able to play with friends in ranked matches, etc.–I want to play with my friends and have my stats recorded. Is that so bad?)

-Friends list integration with Messenger–although for people like me, who don’t use their Xbox Live e-mail on MSN, may have a problem with taking advantage of something like this. Maybe we can get a solution to that.

-Standardized clan system, and subsequent section and/or blade on the dashboard for it. This way, you could stick with the same clan throughout multiple games. Or, a leader could designate what games that clan plays, and you could opt in/out of certain games, so that you could be with a few different clans should the option to do so tickle your fancy.

-One last, small thing: please, please, please fix the dashboard so that anyone can see those pseudo-advertisements in the dashboard. It’s just so boring without them.

I’s like the option to remove or hide my overall gamerscore from Xbox LIVE members annd friends.

Groop chat would be nice, a news page or NEWS MEDIA BLADE in which we can read about up coming game release dates, Xbox LIVE events, and future updates, downloads etc…

Mouse and Keyboard. I have a feeling playing any shooter game against PC users while on the 360 gives them an unfair advantage due to ease of control.

I sent this to a dude I know at Microsoft a while back before the 360 launch, but never heard from him… Ah well – maybe this time it will prove useful. I hope so!  Thanks.

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I’ve tried to keep it as concise as possible and only included the base idea and benefits.  I’ve thought about this a lot and if anybody is interested I’d be more than willing to expand on this.  I really think it has legs!

Here is my idea: present the XBox 360 LIVE component as a 3D, persistent, online virtual world – where every user has an identity, avatar, inventory and account that is tied directly to the XBox 360 console.  

This approach will prove to be very useful in several respects:

- A direct method for marketing and communicating with all XBox Live customers, a built-in audience.

- Provides a friendly, "game environment" method for framing and collecting micropayment on downloadable content (accessible through the user’s Inventory) that could include virtually anything.  Video, music, avatars, user created content, microgames, games from smaller "indy" developers, software…

- Further palatability of micropayment commerce could be enhanced by providing a Xbox-based economy of game money exchanged directly for real money (buying monopoly money) kind of like what was done with There.com – only more successfully.

- Provides an immersive environment for XBox 360 users to build communities, guilds, clans… make the Xbox 360 Live experience grow beyond whatever game is  hot at the moment (for that matter could provide extended marketability for older games at the same time)…

- Opens and expands the very concept of what the home game console is and does – opening the potential market for the unit/service to users who may not yet be included in the demographic for game console sales.

-  Makes a bold step into what will be the future of convergent entertainment/enterprise/communication technology.

Thank-you for your time and consideration.

-G

Despite how often this has been said, I believe it can never be overstated: Chat (voice/video) would be so much better if we could have more than two people in a chat at once.

Live needs to be a complete "on demand" entertainment and social networking service.

Live needs to have a giant server, where all your media is stored remotely, and you have streaming instant access to whatever you want from that server.

Bottom line, make it an HD version of ORB, but you guys store the content.

Online Store:

-Needs to have a MASSIVE purchasing library. Bigger than itunes

-Need to be able to buy music

-Need to be able to buy TV shows

-Need to be able to buy movies

-Need to be able to buy NEXT GEN XBOX 360 GAMES, Like Gears of War.

-Need to be able to buy music videos

-All of your purchased content needs to be available anytime, anywhere, on any platform, instantly streaming in HD quality and down from there.

NOTE: IPTV is cool, but a marketplace model is a much better solution. I will pay per episode to not watch commercials. I hope you guys don’t drop the marketplace because of IPTV. That would be a dumb move.

Video Marketplace downloads should be transferable To Zune.

also…

A Zune tab on the dashboard. I WANT TO SEE THE ALBUM COVERS THROUGH MY 360.

I love music.

a Clan blade and a web API with statistics, tournaments, calendars, screenshots and video replays.

Hopefuly this post will work this time.  I sent this to a dude I know at MS before the 360 launch but never heard back. Hopefully it will prove useful. Thanks!

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I’ve tried to keep it as concise as possible and only included the base idea and benefits.  I’ve thought about this a lot and if anybody is interested I’d be more than willing to expand on this.  I really think it has legs!

Here is my idea: present the XBox 360 LIVE component as a 3D, persistent, online virtual world – where every user has an identity, avatar, inventory and account that is tied directly to the XBox 360 console.  

This approach will prove to be very useful in several respects:

- A direct method for marketing and communicating with all XBox Live customers, a built-in audience.

- Provides a friendly, "game environment" method for framing and collecting micropayment on downloadable content (accessible through the user’s Inventory) that could include virtually anything.  Video, music, avatars, user created content, microgames, games from smaller "indy" developers, software…

- Further palatability of micropayment commerce could be enhanced by providing a Xbox-based economy of game money exchanged directly for real money (buying monopoly money) kind of like what was done with There.com – only more successfully.

- Provides an immersive environment for XBox 360 users to build communities, guilds, clans… make the Xbox 360 Live experience grow beyond whatever game is  hot at the moment (for that matter could provide extended marketability for older games at the same time)…

- Opens and expands the very concept of what the home game console is and does – opening the potential market for the unit/service to users who may not yet be included in the demographic for game console sales.

-  Makes a bold step into what will be the future of convergent entertainment/enterprise/communication technology.

Thank-you for your time and consideration.

-G

XBOX 360 NEEDS A WEB BROWSER!

Make a section for the XBLM for movies where it just shows what films are in HD.  Also having a "Whats New" section for movies and tv shows would be nice.

Also if someething gets released to download on live and I haven’t looked in like 2 month I have no clue because the newly released isn’t based on when I last looked.  It would be great if it could remember when I last looked at something and show me anything that has changed since then so I know I’m not missing anything I might want to buy.

I am a member of a fairly large mature gamers group (seasonedgamers.com) and the most important new feature of XBL, to me, would be an upgraded and expanded friends list.

* More than 100 friends – this limit is entirely too constricting and forces me to drop people every few days to make room for whatever league/tournament or game I am involved in at the moment.  It makes it much tougher to hook up with those others that I was playing another game with previously, or any new people to the community.

* Friends list categories – how about a breakdown by game, and let us have up to 100 friends per game?  Heck, even 50 would be nice.  There are plenty of games I have 50 people I could play with regularly – I could even hit that 100 mark on a few. (Halo anyone?)

Most importantly, like I said – let us have more people on the list!

I would like to see some of the things J Allard talked about way back before the 360 launched come to the Marketplace before we start talking about more features that are out there on the horizon.  Namely, I would like to see user-created content being sold on the Marketplace.  The shirts in Tony Hawk or cars designs in Forza.  Live Anywhere is a great idea, but we seem to have skipped a few things to get there.

I would like to see some XBL features hit the Zune.  Friends list, messaging, etc would be a great addition.  The Zune needs a lot of work before it’s a good device.  You guys should get your stuff together on what’s out there before diving into stuff that’s 5 years down the road.  Nobody wants a Zune that puts DRM on your MP3′s.  Nobody wants to be tied to the Zune Marketplace as in iTunes.  Nobody wants a crippled wi-fi experience, either.

Oh, and get us a bigger hard drive for the 360.

- you should be able to "rename" the entries in your friends list, so i have the choice of leaving it at their gamertag, or changing it to their name.

- an add-in for windows live messenger to list my xbox live friends as well, and allow me to see what they’re upto and msg them.

- multiple friend private chat – sometimes you need to private chat with more than 1 person…

- stop including the demos and XBLA trial games in of the "total games" played stuff under player info. IMO this should only be full games.

- give the ability to copy your gamercard to a memory unit, not move it.

- 4 way video chat

- it would be fantastic if there was an option to get the console to flash it’s ring of light when it is powered down if you receive a message (like the wii’s cd slot)

- different (and customisable) sounds for different types of notification – ie a different sound for a message from when a friend comes online.

I would like there to be a web browser

- ability to remove games from played games list

- ability to be able to hook up any web cam for video chad

i know this isn’t "big" or "long-term" and someone here might have already said it… but i think that a great feature that would be great is being able to have more than just 1-2-1 chats on the 360. Maybe one person hosts the chat and others can join it.

I know this has been mentioned before, but more people who mention it the more it will stand out.  I’d like to have multi-player chats with in a game and across games.

I would also like the xbox.com profiles to be more custimizable.  I would like to see the ablility to post pictures and blogs.

Gus told me about his suggestion above, and I think it’s great:  

When you log onto XBOX Live, you have the choice to enter this virtual world.  In this virtual world, you can go to a cafe and mingle with other people on Live.  We can listen to DJs in a bar (and MS can get a band to play to us over Live for some special event), go to a market and buy a T-Shirt that somebody has made and uploaded.

Perhaps your avatar could even sample a video game that another user has made in XNA.

The possibilities are endless.

Allow friends with a Live account to log into their accounts without having to recover their gamertag everytime they want to play on ur 360. This could be done by allowing that player to use their password to log in instead of having to recover on their friend’s system and then recover on their own system when they get home.

Karaoke. Plain and simple. Download the songs via live. Sell wireless microphones. Done. Ultimate party machine. Plus the Japanese love karaoke. you’d probably sell a few more consoles because of it.

Way to many comments for me to read them all–I hope you get the Gamerscore guys to help you out here Ozy–but I’ve seen XBL Radio appear as a suggestion multiple times.

What if Microsoft partnered up with XM or Sirius so that Xbox Live Gold members could get streams from one of these services? XM or Sirius would get the benefit of many Xbox Live members wanting to continue the programs they’re listening to when they log off of Live hit the road–thus increasing subscriptions–and Live members would get one more cool feature.

It might be a win/win/win type of venture.

Other than that, I saw someone recommend a transparency setting for the Guide blade. I second that! Also, on the Guide subject, how about font/button sizing options. Those of us with bigger screens may want to decrease the size of the text and buttons …

I would like to see the ability to take videos or still shots of my game and save them to my hard drive.  Then, easily take them and publish them to the web to a YouTube-like service.  Burnout Revenge tried this but it needs to be published to the web so that anyone can view it.  Also, the ability to record conversations would be nice for podcasting.  

Karaoke. Plain and simple. Download the songs via live. Sell wireless microphones. Done. Ultimate party machine. Plus the Japanese love karaoke. you’d probably sell a few more consoles because of it.

We need more breathing room. If the 360 plans on going for a few years, those XBL games will begin to choke the HDD. Give us another drive. It’s just too small. And make sure to back up our info should you replace the top drive completely so we can refill the new drive with our old info, games and media. Don’t blow it.

Put system account info in the last System blade. I had to look forever when I wanted to switch credit card info.

Stop backwarding horrible games and flesh out the list of great xbox games…(Oddworld: the stranger, etc.)

More customization for trim and guides with color assignments.

Allow previews of theme and gamer pics. PAying for something mediocre that you can’t see is insulting.

Organize friends, add more friends, mute non-friend players.

When IPTV comes there better be more HDD space…

I would like the ability to fast forward my music and podcasts on the xbox 360. When listening to a podcast on my computer or in my car that I don’t finish. I would like to have the ability to fast forward where I left off, instead of listening to the whole thing all over again.

-Browser

-More Live Vision Camera support in games (I realize NOT a "Live" issue)

-Integrated stat tracking and leaderboards on XBOX.com or at least easily linked to from your xbox.com profile if that is supported by 3rd party.

-External USB drive for the 360… please don’t just sell an ‘upgrade’ and waste a perfectly good drive. (also not a "Live" issue)

-Volume levels for notifications… I don’t want them off… but I don’t want them so loud as they are.

For the love of god, enable DIVX and XVID support for the media extender capabilities of the xbox.

This alone renders my xbox half as useful as it could be.

Also, the 24 hour thing on the movie downloads means i wont be using it until this is extended to at least 72 hours. I had to stop watching a movie, came back the next day to find it gone. Completely unacceptable.  

Multiple person party chats and video chats is all i really want

Party, Clan and Sub-Clan support as a function of the dashboard/xbox live.  

Allow players to create parties in the dashboard before joining a match.

Allow ranked matches in team-based games between parties.

Larger Friends list with the ability to create categories and organize your friends into those categories.

Disallow players on free gold membership trials to participate in ranked matches.

Allow removal of gamers listed on recent players list.

For games like Far Cry Instincts Predator that allow user created maps: Create a community area that allows users creating game content to submit their content for other users to download.

I also am from a large adult online gaming community, and I find the constraints of a 100 person friends’ list annoying.  It’s tedious to have to delete people to play each game.

Would it be impossible to create a master friends list with say 500-1000 friends which will all show when you’re in the dashboard, and then have only those friends show when you are in that game (like it did in Halo 2..it showed who is online in that game…and then everyone else)

I don’t whether this is an issue with live, or backwards compatability issues…but how hard would it be to add an extra line of code to separate 180 owners from 360 owners???

and then each game could have a separate phrase in the code for them.

Hopefully once the 180 phases out this can be done…

Thanks,

Tactr

I think we should have the ability to log into Live, pay a fee in points, and watch a Live concert/Fight/Game/etc.  This would require having some type of Live streaming of content…but even absent that we should still be able to watch it.  I just think being able to see something Live has some really cool appeal.  having the many-to-one scenario would also allow people to log in and ask questions to someone famous being interviewed, for example – and everyone else logged in would hear the question and response.

1 ) I would like to able to log on to another 360/vista with my live account, and download all my game save data, progress, etc

2 ) A web browser as someone already said, but with the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds, and autodownload updates from podcasts, videocasts, etc.

4) A xbox.com show like the guys from 1up do. To tell the community whats coming and so on.

5) Be able to create communities from the 360 and ask friends to join and discuss or play together.  

6) I would like to see more benefit from being a gold user, like exclusive demos, games walk through.

* Allow user made content for games like Oblivion to work on Xbox.

* sorting friends lists into groups (e.g. people I know in RL, people I met on halo, people I met on RB6, etc.)

* chat with more than one person at a time

* A tool that allows me to make my own dashboard themems

* let me upload my own gamer pics

* FPS with PC people using mouse and keyboard vs. console people using joystick should be opt in only.  (i.e. I don’t want to play with them from my console as it would spoil the experience)

(I’ll try to keep this to live, and not the 360 itself, since many people here don’t seem to understand the difference completely)

1. Friend information. An increased friends list would be incredible, but hard to keep track of, I want to be able to see the first game I played with someone, date they were added to the list, notes I can enter about them, information they want me to know, and access it easily from the friends tab… not having to go through menus to find it. (I think someone mentioned a webpage for your gamertag… Why not expand the gamercard tab to become that page, for your friends to see more information, and not just recent game and motto). Also, I want to know who my friends are playing with. Currently I only see the map, or level they are on.  In Halo I know who they are playing against, I might not want to join if I know what’s going on.

2. Increased ease of feedback. I want to be able to mute, prefer, or file a complaint with only a few button presses in a game lobby, or in the recent players tab.  That or make feedback almost mandatory at the end of a game. The only way it will actually work is if people are using it. (maybe someone could actually inform us of the numbers of feedback you’re receiving, because people seem to think it doesn’t work).

3. Party/Lobby systems make life so much easier.  Playing with friends should not be a headache.  (a dashboard party system would also eliminate the need for multiple people in voice/video chat).

4. A more streamlined cert process.  Many things seem to be being held up on Microsoft’s end, at least as far as arcade and game downloads go.  This makes me fear for the concept of the "you-tube" comments your higher execs have made.  If microsoft can’t pass professionally made products with ease, what hope is there for the fringe produced stuff?

5. Server-side file storage.  I want a hard-drive to be just for temporary game/media content and license storage. Let me feel like I have unlimited storage. Blow the 60Gb PS3 out of the water.

6. Use the viral videos section in marketplace. Let people upload videos of their own. (maybe things they’ve filmed with their vision). Make marketplace have more of a community feel.

7. Syndicated video, music, or podcast downloads.

That’s about it, most of what i can think of has already been said.

Me and most of my friends would love to see clan support and we would like to have a multi-person (more than two) private chat, and a multi-person video chat.

And a must is allowe teams with made of friends to participate in online RANKED matches.

Another cool thing that I would like to see is a You-Tube like service for Xbox Live. Maybe somehow itegrating the Vision Camera into it.

How about some msn loving? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to see, and maybe even in the future, chat with your friends in MSN, AOL, or yahoo, via your xbox 360? I know that MSN already has a tab to see whose online in your xbox live friends list, how about to see whose online in your msn. Another quick suggestion for xbox live,and i am no expert here so correct me if i’m wrong, is to get larger servers, or something to compete with the PS3′s 40 people multiplayer.

Internet Browser.  Hands down.

Better iPod support, such as Video playing from said iPod.

I would love to be able to setup my live acct to txt my cell phone when various people on my friends list are on live. There have been lots of times I am simply sitting around the house doing allot of nothing that would have been much better spent stomping my friends at a game of COD or Battlefield 2. A TXT message to my cell phone, would be a great "reminder".

* combine the friends list on windows live messenger on the xbox 360 and have some sought of system to talk to your friends on messenger. You could make it so that it heres your voice turns it into text and when you recieve a messege you get it read aloud to you. It would be great if you could add this in as a chat channel or something

* upload your own picture (can be verifyed and all that) that everyone can see.

* Customisable themes

* a way to talk to friends on voice chat on the pc.

* a web browser would be nice

i have not read all the posts but im most interested in multiplayer chat channels and video chat at least up to four users. the ability to at least listen to voice messages from your pc and view pictures sent through your pc. it would be nice to download music from the xbox 360 dashboard with microsoft points instead of your pc even if you dont own a zune. being able to host ranked games with your friends like in a lobby form example nhl 07. and the last thing i would like to see is more single player games have a spectator mode.

There needs to be a mechanism to dispute/arrange refunds for lemon purchases.

Case in point:

Myself and a friend both purchased Assault Heroes on Live about 4 weeks ago, in no small part so we could play co-op on Live together.  Since then I have played a total of 2 co-op games, 1 with my friend, because since the time I bought it, multiplayer over Live on this game has generally NOT WORKED.

There is an an going thread at xbox.com and on Sierra’s own forums about this lack of functioning multi.  Sierra’s own official response when people started asking for refunds was that they can’t give refunds and implied it was Microsoft’s fault.

They claim to be working on fixing it.  The same claim they’ve made since December.  But I ask this: What incentive do they have to actually fix it?  They don’t have to worry about refunding the money they’ve made so far.  I would guess that most people will make a purchase decision based on the demo, which works fine,  because it has no multi support in it.  So they can continue to reel people in with promises of a broken product.  It’s BS.

I think the other thing, in addition to the refund, Microsoft has an obligation to either pull this product from sales, or place a big fat warning that it does not work as advertised on it right now.  They are currently offering a product that the manufacturer knows to not function as claimed.  It’s called a lemon in the real world, and it’s generally a no-no to sell.

But at some point the publisher really needs to have some accountability, and currently with the way Live is setup, they really don’t, as I’ve discovered.

- Halo 2 party system

- Zune downloads on Live

- MS ‘Digital locker’ system (or something similar) for Zune music / TV programs, so I can pay & download on my 360, and then download again on my Vista PC for free.

- MS Home Server back up options for Live / Vista content

- Resize video’s for my Zune screen

- NEW movies for rental, like the latest releases at Blockbuster

- MSN (including video chat) with Vista users

- MMS / txt messaging with mobile phones

- MS Live services (like the maps / satellite images)

- Keyboard support, so can use Live email on TV

- Internet Browser

- Give me 10,000 free MS Points (though i suppose theres more chance of an Internet Browser, lol !)

- Multiple people in video chat, and option to change back grounds during chat (to make me look like im broadcasting from the Bahamas!)

- this one should be easy… please support all major Video formats!!! I have so much video that I cannot yet stream

- 100GB HDD please. And for goodness sake, have it reasonably priced. The 20GB HDD for about £60 is a joke!

- new 802.11n wifi adaptor (when the standard is finalised, of course), it will give you guys one up on the PS3, which has its wifi adaptor built in

- Upload Save games to my Live account

Okay I didn’t read through this whole thing so I don’t know if I’m repeating or not, but one simple addition could help my XBL experience.  Add a one-button ‘Request Invite’ option.  It would be similar to the ‘Send Invite’, execpt that you’re not inviting someone else to your game, you want them to invite you into theirs.

As it is now if I want to get into a game that a friend of mine is playing, I have to write a message, typing out ‘inv’ and sending it.  Then, they have to see the message, scroll over to find me in their list and select ‘Send Invite’.

A ‘Request Invite’ option could streamline this process.  I just click ‘Request Invite’, and in the form the recipient sees there could be a ‘Send Invite’ option already there.  Much more streamlined, and it would help me find a game to play in quicker.

* Open up video marketplace to other country’s

* A web browser

* Bring out exlusive gamerpictures and themes for other countrys not just the US ie. 24 Gamerpictures exlusive for North America and nowere else, yet loads of people watch it.

Make video chat more integrated by using it during playing games and watching movies.

Make shortcut buttons on the controllers or wireless headset to make access the features as quick as possible. For ex: when someone alert you for video chat or private chat or invite to a gameplay, and also shorcuts buttons to access features on the guide button by pressing it a number of times. On the dashboard it shows the selection you want to choose.

Give a game photo mode for Avatar.

Need to get rid of DVD’s HD DVD’s. Put a Terabyte Harddrive in the next xbox or something.

Give Zune more video codecs and let it stream videos to 360 and the same for computers.

Building communities and clans for mmorpg and multi shooter.

I really dont care about a web browser on the system. I have a computer to do all that.

I can on and on but let the people at MS who are gettin paid do their jobs.

option to change the keyboard layout to Qwerty. Please!

Hey Q.  

I think it’s time the friends list got a make over.  here are my thoughts

First, up to 200 people.  For people part of community sites, 100 people isn’t enough.

I’d like to see more informative information in my FL when someone is offline.  telling me when the last time they were online was isn’t very helpful.  I’d like to know when the lat time i played with that person was and ideally what i played with them.

Lastly i’d my FL to be more organized, ideally by game.  My visions is this.  The unsorted FL is how it is now.  Then when i play with a person in my FL in a game, a little icon tab is made automatically and that person is added to the games category tab.  So now when i’m playing a game, i can go to that tab and invite people i know are playing say Gears of War.  This will reduce the invites for games my friends don’t have, an ongoing irritation of mine.  I get tons of INVs for games i’ve moved on from.  

For removal of the category have the user be able to set a deletion time.  If you don’t play the game for 30 days or 60 days, the category gets deleted from the list of sorting categories.  Also have the ability to set a player removal timer for each category.  SO if someone in the category doesn’t play the game for 15 days or 30 days, they automatically get removed.  Also have manual removal.

That’s my vision.

Also id’ like to be able to chat with more than 1 friend at a time.  Voice needs less than 9.6k, 3 and 4 way chat is totally doable and you guys know it

Hm.

1.I’ve got to agree with web browser, it’s not necesarry, and it will never be, seeing as xbox live already rules, but just for the few who say the web browser is in every other console except X360. A multi-person chat would be awesome as well.

2.And i can’t stress this enough, MORE CAMERA ENABLED ARCADE GAMES! the eyetoy had a good amount, so far xbox 360 only has totemball and, rainbow six i guess.

3. Adding your own viral videos would be hilarious, i’ve got a few ideas of myself. With this you could add a ‘most downloaded’ section, ‘newly added’ and highest rated.

4. I know this has nothing to do really with XBL, but since MS already owns Rare, why not bring Goldeneye 64, with multiplayer into arcade? it could be another game that exceeds 50mb limit, but it would be a top downloaded one, i will asure that.

5. Better servers as well, i would love to play halo 3 with 40 people matches…actually scratch that, you could die too easily, i love it how it is, so please just make servers faster.

6. How about a Myspace kind of page for 360 owners? good idea for people to meet each other and give GT’s while not necesarly playing.

7. More cross-platform games. Note, i am not saying shooters since mouses could have advantage.

8. This isn’t necesarly for me, but how about giving some Silver members more free weekends to play in?

9. Add a ‘user created games’ section in arcade tabs. I know many people who would love to make games for the 360 arcade, get them some MS points with it. Also, whatever happened to the EBAY marketplace? the thing of you downloading something, then selling it cheaper, and getting some MS points for it.

10. And finally, add xbox titles for the download, this wouldn’t only help people who don’t know which titles would work, but it would completely make it so we don’t have to worry. I admit this would require a bigger HDD, but if MS does bring the hopeful 120G one, (hopefully cheaper than 150$) it would blow competition away.

I would like to be able to have multi-person chat on Xbox Live ( more than two ). You could have it where you invite someone to chat and lets say another friend comes on , you should be able to invite him or her to a chat then hit a button to combine the two chats where you can all hear eachother.

I would also like some kind of way to make groups for your friends list kind of like on Yahoo , AIM and such. For example you could label groups of people on the list like " Buddies " " Family Members ".

As far as anything else , I am interested to see how the future goes for Xbox 360 and other devices that surround it.

*How about a matchmaking/friends app that gives each user a "Virtual Room/House" to fill up with

Vision pics/ audio-video blogs/ streaming music (maybe anything availavle on Zune marketplace hint hint) and acheivements.  Myspace is a Microsoft/News Corp. right (?) so maybe even tying into that and trademarking it as "Myspace360" would really be great.

*"Video Mail" – Please!

*the ability to transfer my UFC fight downloads (and all other 360 downloaded vids) to a Zune and the ability to buy songs and such using just a 360.  I’m sure this kinda functionality is on the way though.

*When the 360 loads up, have just pressing "play" on the remote start up your custom soundtrack or in a game make it take over the games’ music and play the custom soundtrack!!!

I’ll try to think of some more later.  Thanks!

- Internet Radio XBOX LIVE RADIO STREAM

- Frindlist in Categories (Games,most played …)

- an Online Lobby in Dashboard so i can Chat with more than 1 People

- watching TV on XBOX

- more ingame Videos on Marketplace from real Xbox Live Matches

- an XBoX Clan Support in Dashboard only one can get the Tag like Gamertag with some Options like

How many Clans are in Live,which Clans play which Games also Categorys in Games and Countrys.Easy way to do Clan Matches Click and Play.

- an XBOX LIVE CHECKUP in the Dashboard like

how many Players are in Live and how many are online which Games are most playing in Time (Top 10)

the last new Gamertag in the Comunity ,most time played Gamertag and much more Infos over Live

- Webcam chats over Xbox and PC

- XBOX Live Dashboard on Mobile Phone so i can call with my Mobile a Frind via Xbox and Headset

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MAke it FREEEEEEE!

I really want a msn messenger in xbox live

I’d like to see a split in the Family Settings between DOWNLOADING and WATCHING/PLAYING.

I have parental controls enabled, which means that I can’t download DOOM since it has a higher rating than I have set (even when logged in as myself – the parent). I have to disable parental controls altogether to see all of the XBLA and Marketplace content.

I’d like to be able to set "Unrestricted Downloads" and "Restricted Watching/Playing".

I want one major thing: The ability to un-link my Gamertag and Passport, or otherwise change the Passport connected to my Gamertag. I recently paid to change my Gamertag and I’m pretty disappointed that the Passport connected to it is stuck being the one for the old Gamertag, identically named.

Just let us change our email and Passport link. This "Never unlink" stuff is crap.

there should be something added to the controller mapping where you can skip songs, like some sort of button combination instead of having to go into the menu each and every time, also there should be a way to navigate the current playlist instead of having to load certain songs.

I couldn’t possibly read all of the above comments, so here are some of my ideas:

I’d like to see a voice chat "room" that you can enter into with a couple of your friends. It would be easier to plan what you are going to do online that way then trying to switch between multiple chats.

Increase the number of friends to at least 150 or 200.

The ability to delete games from your profile completely, meaning achievements, gamerscore and all. Occassionally I rent a game and don’t get anywhere in it, and I’d rather delete it from my list then have it keep sitting there.

Hopefully this will happen when Live Anywhere comes to fruition, but a dedicated desktop program for your computer that simulates live in a form like AIM or MSN Messenger. It constantly updates what friends are online and what they are doing, shows that you are online and what you are doing, and works like a messaging program where from your computer you can type and send messages quickly and easily.

Microsoft and Xbox Live need to overhaul the "true skill" program. The current system causes there to be no way to play with your friends (on a team) and that’s rather disheartening. Modify the system so team parties can be created.

More support for the Zune. Allow marketplace videos to be transferred from 360 to Zune and back again. Allow the Zune to function as a memory card. Wireless streaming from Zune to 360.

Build in support for .avi or divx files (360 and Zune)

Find a way so games can have multiple people logged in at a single time. What i mean by this is the 360 is not conducive to people playing (single player) games together and trading off. This is because of the achivement system. If there was a way that you and your buddy could both be logged into XBL on the same box and while you were playing the game and trading off you BOTH earned the achievements, it would allow people to go back to the "old" play style of gaming where you’d sit around all night playing with friends and trading off when you died or beat a level.

That’s all I’ve got for now.

I need more Friends.  I’m part of a community that has around 800 members.  I really need more room on the friend’s list in order to add people that I want.

Free online play. Free maps,stop nickel and diming us please.We pay 60+ for a game isn’t that enough???We want to buy games,lots of them but 130 bucks for 2 games is just plain dumb unless you have no live outside of gaming.

Let us develop our own games for free.I love the idea but i really don’t want to pay you for something i made…kinda dumb isn’t it.

Unlimited monthly movie/tv show rental at a resonable cost.Let us stream whatever we want to the xbox from our pc,if you dont someone else will.(tversity,come on guys it blows your media connect away).

A web browser….maybe

Love the iptv idea,but the xbox is kinda noisy to leave on while watching tv,fix this….if the price is right and i will ditch my dish.

Use real amounts in market place,we are smart enough to use real money guys.

More family games(see mario,study it day and night…why is it fun)